Director Kevin Smith's prize-winning debut feature is a micro-budget black-and-white marvel that showcases his dry wit and wonderful sense of the absurd. It focuses on a day in the life of a New Jersey convenience store, where the double act of Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson amuses, charms and offends with endless, rambling discussions about sex, videos, food prices, sex, Star Wars and sex. Their counterculture diatribes are by turn screamingly funny and wincingly accurate, although those of a sensitive nature should be warned. Smith's direction is as delightful as it is often unreliable with the overall surreal atmosphere resembling a Generation X treatment of Are You Being Served?

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.