Clerks (1994 First Feature)

In the second episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1994, we’re talking about our pick for a debut feature by a major filmmaker, Kevin Smith’s landmark indie comedy Clerks. Written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Jason Mewes and Smith himself, Clerks premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and launched Smith’s lucrative career as a filmmaker, speaker, comic book writer and podcaster.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/clerks-1994), Janet Maslin in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/25/movies/review-film-festival-at-a-convenience-store-coolness-to-go.html) and Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1994/11/18/movie-review-clerks/).

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