Saturday Night at Chess Cinemas

It was his first feature film and remains, far and away, his best.

Writer/Director/Actor Kevin Smith has not followed-up on Clerks. (1994) the way in which I am sure many would have hoped after seeing this witty mid-1990’s vignette of wise-cracking New Jersey video rental store clerks.

Despite the disappointment of some of his subsequent films, that does not take away from how entertaining and original the dialogue is in Clerks..

From Wikipedia:

 Clerks, was shot for the sum total of $27,575 in the convenience store where Smith worked. It went to the Sundance Film Festival in 1994, where it won the Filmmaker’s Trophy and was picked up by Miramax before the festival’s end. In May 1994, it went to the Cannes International Film Festival where it won both the Prix de la Jeunesse and the International Critics’ Week Prize. Released in October 1994 in two cities, the film went on to play in 50 markets, never playing on more than fifty screens at any given time. Despite the limited release, it was a critical and financial success, earning $3.1 million.^[9]