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CLERKS

VISUAL AIDS
POSTERS AND COVER ART



THE BACK OF THE BOX
WHAT THE STUDIO WANTS YOU TO KNOW

    If you're in the market for what The Detroit News called "a lively comic adventure," Clerks delivers with wholesale hilarity! It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys whose razor-sharp wit and on-the-job antics give a whole new meaning to customer service! Even while braving a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, the clerks manage to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home, and straighten out their offbeat love lives. The boss is nowhere in sight, so you can bet anything can and will - happen when these guys are left to run the store!

STARRING:

Brian O'Halloran: Dante Hicks
Jeff Anderson: Randal Graves
Marilyn Ghigliotti: Veronica Loughran
Jason Mewes: Jay
Lisa Spoonauer: Caitlin Bree

SCREENWRITER: Kevin Smith

DIRECTOR: Kevin Smith

RUNNING TIME: 92 minutes

STUDIO: Miramax

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: B

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GIGGLES, GLOBES AND OSCARS
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

ACADEMY AWARDS

No awards or nominations given to this film.

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GOLDEN GIGGLES

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GOLDEN GLOBES

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THE GEEK BOX
TRIVIA TO IMPRESS YOUR EASILY IMPRESSED FRIENDS

• This marks the film debut of writer/director/actor Kevin Smith.
• Kevin Smith was actually working at the Quickstop at the time of filming, and the owners only allowed him to shoot after regular operating hours. As a result the shutters to the windows were always closed when they were filming, so Smith wrote into the script that they were jammed shut.
• Kevin Smith financed this film by taking out numerous credit cards and claiming that he owned the convience store he was working at. When the credit card companies called to verify this, Smith answered the phones and verified that he owned the stores. He also sold a large portion of his comics, and used insurance money that he received from his car being totaled in a recent flood.
• When filming was finished, Kevin Smith and producer Scott Moiser spent late nights editing the film inside the video store.
• This VHS version of this film has the proud title of being the most stolen film in history.
• Originally Kevin Smith was going to play the role of Dante, which is why according to Smith he has the best lines in the movie. Smith decided he couldn't handle the role and decided to have an actor play the role. Smith then took over the role of Silent Bob which he had promised to someone else. He said he did this because at the time he didn't know if he was going to fail or not, and if he failed and was in debt the rest of his life because of the film, he wanted to at least be able to show people the movie and be able to point himself out.
• Once Miramax obtained the rights to this film they had to pay royalties for the soundtrack which totaled about $27,000, while the film itself only cost about $26,800, this is the first time in film history that the soundtrack was more expensive then the film itself.
• All of the main characters in the film were on the cover-art and poster of this film except for Jason Mewes who played Jay. Producers feared he looked to odd and wanted to keep him out of the advertising.
• When reviewed by the MPAA this film was slapped with an "NC-17" rating due to the language in the film. Miramax hired Alan M. Dershowitz, who helped acquit O.J. Simpson, to fight the rating. He successfully got them to give the film an "R" rating without any cuts.
• Originally the film ended with Dante being shot by a robber, this was changed for the actual release of the film but the alternate ending can be seen on the DVD.
• Kevin Smith attended the Vancouver Film School with Scott Moiser and the two of them made a pact that whoever had a script ready to shoot first would direct the film and the other would be the film's producer. Smith dropped out of the school and got his script done first, as a result Moiser took a producer role, and has since produced all of Smith's movies.

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