Chronicling a day in the life of Quick Stop clerk Dante Hicks CLERKS captures the hilarity of the humdrum even as it raises slackerdom to existential proportions. From behind his counter Dante desperately tries to exert some power over the crazy customers his own love life and his incorrigible friend and fellow clerk Randal--the type who sees nothing wrong in closing the video shop he works in to go rent movies from a better store.