Kevin Smith begins filming Clerks at the convenience store where he worked, in New Jersey.
The principal photography of Clerks is completed after coming in under budget and on schedule.
Clerks premieres at the Sundance Film Festival and receives critical acclaim, launching Kevin Smith's career.
Clerks is released in theaters, gaining popularity for its low-budget independent filmmaking style.
Finally got to see this in theaters - it's a lovely movie. One of the higher quality family-friendly sci fi movies in a LONG time. The part I liked least about the book was the humor - movie was the same. Which speaks to how good the adaptation was.
This is the best action movie of all time!