View Askew Productions Films (Film Guide) - An Evening with Kevin Smith, an Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder, a Better Place, Big Helium Dog, (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 35. Chapters: An Evening with Kevin Smith, An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder, A Better Place, Big Helium Dog, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Clerks II, Dogma (film), Drawing Flies, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl (2004 film), Kevin Smith: Too Fat for 40, Mallrats, Small Town Gay Bar, Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith, The Flying Car, View Askew Productions, Vulgar (film), Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Excerpt: Clerks is a 1994 comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film as Silent Bob. Starring Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two store clerks and their acquaintances. Clerks was the first of Smith's View Askewniverse films and the only one to date to be shot entirely in black and white. It introduces several characters, notably Jay and Silent Bob, who reappear in his later works, including Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks II. Clerks, which was shot for $27,575 in the convenience store where director Kevin Smith worked in real life, grossed over $3 million in theaters, launching Smith's career. On April 10, 1993, Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran), 22, a retail clerk at a local Quick Stop Market convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey, is called into work on his day off by his boss to cover a few hours for another employee who is sick. Arriving at the store, he finds that the locks to the security shutters are jammed closed with chewing gum, so he hangs a sheet over them with a message written in shoe polish: "I ASSURE YOU; WE'RE OPEN." Dante's day is spent in the purgatory of serving a succession of customers while bemoaning the fact that he's "not even supposed to be here today." Interspersed with the demands of his job, Dante passes time in wide-ranging conversations with his friend, Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson). Randal works at the neighboring video store, although he spends almost the entire day at the Quick Stop. They converse about many things to pass time, such as whether the contractors working on the second Death Star when it was destroyed at the end of Return of the Jedi were innocent victims or not. Dante's current girlfriend, Veronica Loughran (Marilyn Ghigliotti), also stops in and the two talk about Dante's current disposition in a rut with no motivation to change. Further contributing to Dante's misery is an announceme