So 27 years ago I was dating a girl who worked at a video store while I was working at a convenience store. She gave me this 'not for resale' demo video of a movie called Clerks, she said it reminded her of me and my best friend. The closest theater it played at to us a 2 hour drive and no one had heard of it, so I gave it a shot. I got some rum and called my best friend and and we sat through it, laughing so hard we almost puked, maybe that was the rum, we were only 19.
A few months later my best friend, myself and a new girlfriend went to go see its 'sequel' MallRats.
We just got back from seeing Clerks 3 tonight. My best friend, still lives on my couch after 25 years, that new girlfriend is now my wife of a stupidly long time, and we added my 12 year old daughter on to the New Jersey saga theater night. She got to see the last (most likely) Clerks movie in the theater with her parents and her dad's 'hetro lifemate.'
If you're a Kevin Smith fan, I highly recommend it, take a tissue.