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This month’s Cult & Classic is a staff pick. Are they trying to tell us something?
Shot in grainy black and white and loosely based on director Kevin Smith's life at the time, this no-budget film follows a convenience store clerk and his video-store-clerk best friend over the course of a single day. Clerks captures both the banality of service work and a sort of dirtbag-vérité weirdness that would end up becoming a go-to template for ‘90s indie movies; just for kicks, he throws in a stoner duo (hello, Jay and Silent Bob!).