Clerks Page #31

Synopsis: Dante Hicks is not having a good day. He works as a clerk in a small convenience store and is told to come into work on his day off. Dante thinks life is a series of down endings and this day is proving to no different. He reads in the newspaper that his ex-girlfriend Caitlin is getting married. His present girlfriend reveals to have somewhat more experience with sex that he ever imagined. His principal concerns are the hockey game he has that afternoon and the wake for a friend who died. His buddy Randal Graves works as a clerk in the video store next and he hates his job just about as much as Dante hates his.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Kevin Smith
Production: Miramax Films
  5 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
1994
92 min
1,332 Views


DANTE:

How like her.

CAITLIN:

Then my mother called me this morning

and told me the announcement was in

the paper. That's when I hopped the

train to come back here, because I

knew you'd be a wreck.

DANTE:

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

CAITLIN:

Was I right?

DANTE:

Wreck is a harsh term. Disturbed is

more like it. Mildly disturbed even.

CAITLIN:

I love a macho façade. It's such a

turn-on.

(sniffing air)

What smells like shoe polish?

DANTE:

And you came here to what? To comfort

me?

CAITLIN:

The last thing I needed was for you

to think I was hiding something from

you.

DANTE:

But you were.

CAITLIN:

No, I wasn't. Not really. I told

you'd I'd been seeing other people.

DANTE:

Yeah, but not seriously. Christ,

you're ready to walk down the aisle-

I'd say that constitutes something

more than just seeing somebody.

CAITLIN:

I'm giving him his ring back.

DANTE:

What?

CAITLIN:

I don't want to marry him. I don't

want to get married now. I'm on the

verge of graduation. I want to go to

grad school after this. And then I

want to start a career. I don't want

to be a wife first, and then have to

worry about when I'm going to fit in

all of the other stuff. I've come

way too far and studied too hard to

let my education go to waste as a

housewife. And I know that's what

I'd become. Sang's already signed

with a major firm, and he's going to

be pulling a huge salary, which would

give me no reason to work, and he's

so traditional anyway...

DANTE:

Sang? His name is a past tense?

CAITLIN:

Stop it. He's a nice guy.

DANTE:

If he's so nice, why aren't you going

to marry him?

CAITLIN:

I just told you.

DANTE:

There's more, isn't there?

CAITLIN:

Why, Mr. Hicks-whatever do you mean?

DANTE:

Tell me I don't have something to do

with it.

CAITLIN:

You don't have anything to do with

it.

DANTE:

You lie.

CAITLIN:

Look how full of yourself you are.

DANTE:

I just believe in giving credit where

credit is due. And I believe that

I'm the impetus behind your failure

to wed.

CAITLIN:

If I'm so nuts about you, then why

am I having sex with an Asian design

major?

DANTE:

Jesus, you're caustic.

CAITLIN:

I had to bring you down from that

cloud you were floating on. When I

say I don't want to get married, I

mean just that. I don't want to marry

anybody. Not for years.

DANTE:

So who's asking? I don't want to

marry you.

CAITLIN:

Good. Stay in that frame of mind.

DANTE:

But can we date?

CAITLIN:

I'm sure Sang and-Veronica?-would

like that.

DANTE:

We could introduce them. They might

hit it off.

CAITLIN:

You're serious. You want to date

again.

DANTE:

I would like to be your boyfriend,

yes.

CAITLIN:

It's just the shock of seeing me

after three years. Believe me, you'll

get over it.

DANTE:

Give me a bit more credit. I think

it's time we got back together, you

know. I'm more mature, you're more

mature, you're finishing college,

I'm already in the job market...

CAITLIN:

You work in a market, all right.

DANTE:

Cute. Tell me you wouldn't want to

go out again. After all the talking

we've been doing.

CAITLIN:

The key word here is talk, Dante. I

think the idea, the conception of us

dating is more idyllic than what

actually happens when we date.

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Kevin Smith

Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, public speaker, comic book writer, author, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy Clerks (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo "Jay & Silent Bob". Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in Smith's follow-up films Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back which were mostly all set in his home state of New Jersey. While not strictly sequential, the films frequently featured crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon described by fans as the "View Askewniverse", named after his production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier. more…

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