if you have see american pie and think of it a be honest and real about sex and the way kid talk and then clerk be right up your alley . i do not think a movie have pleasantly shock me more than this one have . and make no mistake about it and this be one of the funny movie i have ever see . by now we have all hear the story of how kevin smith somehow scrounge up $ 27000 to piece this rag tag film together . it be at a film festival and some film executive saw it and offer him a generous amount of money . they fix it up and before you know it we have the best indie film ever make . kevin smith be now a recognizable name in hollywood and that alone should make you want to see this film . dante and randal be best friend . they work at a small convenience store and a crappy little video store respectively . a a matter a fact and the video store be so inept that randall actually go to one of the big video store in town to rent his movie . anyway and dante be obsess with his ex girlfriend that cheat on him and he have a present girlfriend that be wonderful to him . that be the basic premise for the movie . and that be all you need to know about the plot . because what the film be really about be how these character really talk to each other . it be a bunch of clever anecdote piece together hilariously to form a movie . but some of the scene be just so damn funny that clerk stay with you for a long long time . take for instance a scene where dante and his girlfriend be discuss the various responsibility of a man and a woman in sex . each have an obvious gender bias view of the act but listen to how honest it be write and it give mean and much hilarity to the scene . from here and the two end up discuss how many people the other have sleep with . and we all know that be an absolute no no in relationship . because no matter how many or how little the number be and it be too much . but that would be too easy for smith to end it at that . no and he take it a step far . from here veronica ( the girlfriend ) explain that she have only sleep with x amount of guy but she have go down on 36 others . dante be mortify . how can she do that . and she explain that when she do it it mean more than when she go down and that be suppose to make him feel well . it of course doesn not and the pay off in the scene be brilliant a veronica be walk back to her car . and that be just one of the scene that make the film work . there be dozen of other scene similar in nature that be so humourous yet painfully honest that you laugh but when the giggle subside and you realize that it be so true . the obvious strength of this film be the writing . but beyond that and smith establishes himself a a director that can get a performance out of his actor . almost every major character in here be so well do that you think they have 20 attempt to get it perfect instead of the 3 or 4 that the budget would allow . dante be well play by ohalloran but it be anderson a randle that i think steel the picture . he be so honest and natural in every scene that he be in that it actually bother me that he have not establish himself in the game . be it because no one want to give him a role or be it that he have no interest in movie . i do not know and i just wish he be around again because he be electric . jay and silent bob be funny a well and bob provide the film with one of the funny moment a he dance out of nowhere and then he shock u with his only line of the film . and what he say may as well be socrates talk and not a simple street hood . it really work . i love clerk . it be such a fun movie and if you haven not see this gem and check it out . like it for the funny film that it be and but love it for whats behind it . this film have heart . and smith be an inspiration to anyone that want to do what he do . after all and he prove that nothing be impossible . he be live proof of that .