Clerks. (1995)

Another day in the life of Dante and Randal, from Kevin Smith's indie film.

Director:

Michael Lessac

Writers:

Richard Day, Kevin Smith (characters)

Stars:

Andrew Lowery, Jim Breuer, Larry Brandenburg

Cast

Credited cast:
Larry Brandenburg	...	Dante's Dad
Jim Breuer	...	Randal Graves
Bodhi Elfman	...	Ray
Rick Gomez	...	Todd
Tony Lopresti	...	Customer
Andrew Lowery	...	Dante Hicks
André Nemec	...	Cliff
Noelle Parker	...	Veronica
Jack Plotnick	...	Cop
Keri Russell	...	Sandra

Storyline

Live action unaired pilot based on the cult movie of the same name. Convenience store clerk Dante has to deal with his disappointed but caring father who once again tries to convince him to make something out of his life and get a "real" job, his serious girlfriend Veronica who wants them to spend a romantic evening together but he just can't find the time, as well as the store's regular friendly underage pathological shoplifter Ray. Dante's priorities change however when Cliff, an old acquaintance of his who once betrayed him when they were friends as teens, suddenly shows up to brag about his successful new career and Veronica agrees to go to his party. Dante's best friend Randal, a video store clerk who works next door to Dante and loves spoiling movies for his customers, agrees to help primarily because he's bored. They also take with them their friend Todd, the next door ice cream clerk who's obsessed with Sandra, a gorgeous friendly cool girl who sometimes likes to hang out with...

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Plot Keywords:

friend | clerk | party | video store clerk | video store | 

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Genres:

Short | Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

31 May 1995 (USA)

Also Known As:

Clerks

Company Credits

Production Co:

Touchstone Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Filmed during the production of Kevin Smith's follow-up film Mallrats (1995). Smith had no involvement in this attempt at a series.

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Quotes

Veronica: Oh yeah, I don't know how you top off a night like this... oh wait... sex in a car.

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Connections

References Presumed Innocent (1990)

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Soundtracks

Ice Ice Baby
Written by Vanilla Ice and DJ Earthquake
Performed by Jim Breuer

User Reviews

The Pilot Episode

Well it was very cheap set, "Saved by the Bell" type sets (That was Brian O'Halloran quote) and was horrible.

They ditched Jay and Bob, added other reoccurring clerks like the ice cream man and took everything good out of clerks and added in plots that involved like people in the store talking about their lives and horrible lines like that.

It was awful and if your lucky you can find the 3 minutes of footage running around the net somewhere.

Well "lucky" isn't really the right word. But yeah, After Miramax sold the rights to WB, WB then sold them out again for a sitcom. The sitcom was made into a pilot that Brian, Jeff, and Marlin tried out for and got rejected. Horrible, Horrible stuff.