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Clerks (1994)

In 1993 prospective film maker Kevin Smith maxed out on credit card debt to shoot a film from a script he had written. We follow a day in the life of put upon convenience store clerk Dante as he deals with his love life, co-worker and customers.

Clerks is a really funny film and it deals with the hum drum existence largely ignored by cinema at the time. Dante and Randal provide two different and good lead characters around which to base the film and there is enough support from the myriad of odd balls that drop into the store. While this is obviously a low budget film it is also the most important aspect of the film, it showed a large number of people that actually you can go out and make a film if you really want to and this should be even easier (as well as cheaper) now thanks to advances in technology.

4/5 a good film and a challenge to all prospective film makers.