Today! Because I’m not even supposed to be here today –
Clerks (1994)
Directed by Kevin Smith
Starring Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Lisa Spoonauer, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Scott Mosier
And then there are some movies on the list that have almost nothing to do with the movie itself. Don’t get me wrong – I still really love Clerks, but it’s a pretty different experience now than when you first laid eyes on it back in ’94. Now it’s for nostalgia, and the still-pretty-fun Kevin Smith-ness of the whole thing. But back then, this movie was the inspiration. The story of how they made it was better than the film itself in many ways – just a couple of guys maxing out credit cards and filming a movie at the location they had available to them. Hell, by ’94 I’d already made my legendary garage trilogy of Russian Bikini Hookers films on zero budget with Barbie dolls (and I didn’t even know about Todd Haynes Karen Carpenter biopic Superstar at that point), so this seat-of-our-pants, shoestring motion picture really spoke to me.
Superstar makes Russian Bikini Hookers look like Russian Bikini Hookers 3: Hurricane Ho
Knowingly Undersold 