Clerks III
Short description
Clerks III returns to the Quick Stop Groceries in New Jersey, where Dante Hicks and Randal Graves still work behind the counter and pass their days with Jay and Silent Bob. After Randal survives a severe heart attack, he decides to make a film about his life and the years he and Dante spent in the store that started everything, recruiting his old friend and the people around them to recreate the moments that shaped them.
Kevin Smith wrote and directed the film, the fifteenth of the seventeen features he has directed in chronological order, following Jay and Silent Bob Reboot and preceding The 4:30 Movie. Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson reprise the roles of Dante and Randal, with Rosario Dawson as Becky, Jason Mewes as Jay, Kevin Smith as Silent Bob, and Marilyn Ghigliotti as Veronica Loughran among a credited cast of 122. It is a sequel within Smith's View Askew series.
Made for about 7 million US dollars, the film took in roughly 5 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.2 out of 10 from 22,000 votes and on TMDB 6 out of 10 from 344 votes. A critics' rating of 6.1 out of 10 from 126 reviews places it close to the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Initially, director and screenwriter Kevin Smith announced the cancellation of “Clerks 3” after a falling out with his actor friend Jeff Anderson, who played Randal Graves in the comedies “Clerks” (1994) and “Clerks 2” (2006). Anderson read the script but decided not to appear in the third film. Smith closed the project and instead filmed the adventure comedy “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” (2019). Two weeks before the premiere of that film, Smith revealed that he had spent an entire day with Anderson and Jason Mewes signing merchandise for the “Clerks” franchise. This gave Smith, Anderson, and Mewes a chance to reconcile, and Smith was so inspired by what happened that he threw out the old script and began working on a new one with fresh ideas that Anderson liked.
- The plot idea about Randall recovering from a heart attack and deciding to change his life reflects an incident in the life of director and screenwriter Kevin Smith himself, who almost died from a heart attack some time ago and decided to become vegetarian afterwards.
- The film uses the same small grocery store that was filmed in the first “Clerks” in 1994 in New Jersey, and it was now run by the original owner’s son. The first film could only be shot at night (hence the closed blinds), but this time the store was closed to customers for two weeks to allow for daytime shooting. The store featured in “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” (2019) was merely a set built in New Orleans.
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