"Just Because They Serve You... Doesn't Mean They Like You."

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Clerks records a day in the life of two young store clerks, Dante and Randal. Dante, played by Brian O'Halloran, is a convenience store clerk working on his day off. Dante has developed some sense of responsibility toward his job even though he hates it. Randal, played by Jeff Anderson, is more pragmatic. He knows he hates his job as a video store clerk and compensates by doing whatever he feels like during his working hours. Dante's life is going nowhere and mostly because of his own actions. He has a loving girlfriend, Veronica (Marilyn Ghigliotti), who loves and believes in him, yet he is obsessed with an old high school flame, Caitlin (Lisa Spoonhauer). Dante resists continuing his education, which would be a ticket out of his job. His only highlight of the week is playing street hockey. His obsession with the game is such that he chooses to play on the roof of the store rather than not play at all. The roof-top game provides one of the more entertaining sequences of the movie.