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Clerks is a 1994 film written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson . It presents a day in the lives of two shop clerks and their acquaintances.
Clerks was Smith's first film, and introduces several characters, notably Jay and Silent Bob, who reappear in his later films. The film is in black-and-white and roughly edited due to a budget of less than $30,000; it became a surprising success after it was taken by Miramax Films and polished with additions to the soundtrack.
The MPAA originally gave Clerks an NC-17 rating, based purely on the film's explicit dialogue — it contains no real violence, and no clearly depicted nudity. This was a financial death sentence, as very few cinemas in the United States will screen NC-17 movies. Miramax hired civil-liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz to appeal the decision; the MPAA relented and re-rated the film with the more commercial 'R' rating, without one single altered frame or word.
There was also a short-lived six-episode animated series of the same name, featuring the same characters and actors. The series introduced a new villain, Leonardo Leonardo, named after Leonardo, New Jersey, the town in which the movie and show take place. Leonardo was voiced by Alec Baldwin.
The show differed from the movie in many ways, due to the additional freedom animation provides contrasted with the language and content restrictions that broadcast TV demands. For example, the characters of Jay and Silent Bob were changed from drug dealers to firecrackerA firecracker or noisemaker is a small explosive device primarily designed to produce a large amount of noise, especially in the form of a loud bang; any visual effect is incidental to this goal. By comparison, fireworks are chiefly pyrotechnic in design dealers. Only two episodes were aired on ABCPaul Rand in 1962. ABC network re-directs here; an alternate meaning is Australian Broadcasting Corporation The American Broadcasting Company or ABC is a television and radio network in the United States, owned by The Walt Disney Company. History In 1940 before the series was cancelled due to low ratings and not fitting in with ABC's other programming. All six episodes were later released on DVDDVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. DVDs are similar in appearance to compact discs. History During the early 1990s there were two high density optical sto, marking one of the first occasions in which a short-lived TV series found success in this format; since the release of the Clerks series, a number of limited-run series, such as The TickThe Tick is a comedic superhero who has appeared in a comic book series, an animated cartoon show, and a live action television series. These were created and primarily written by Ben Edlund. In the animated series, the Tick was voiced by Townsend Coleman, Freaks and GeeksFreaks and Geeks was a U. television series that aired on NBC during the 1999 2000 TV season. Although the show garnered much critical acclaim and a devoted cult following, repeated pre-emption and scheduling changes hurt the ratings. It was canceled afte, and My Big Fat Greek Life have been released to DVD. The full series also aired on Comedy CentralComedy Central is a cable television channel in the United States. As its name implies, the channel carries predominantly comedy programming, both original and syndicated. Comedy Central began on April Fool's Day 1991, after Home Box Office, owned by Time.
The film has also been the basis for several graphic novelA graphic novel is a novel or novella done in the medium of comics. It is typically a long-form work rather than a short publication such as an individual comic book, analogous to a novel rather than a short story. A graphic novel need not be a complete ws written by Kevin Smith.