Writer-director Kevin Smith is "an original," according to Richard Schickel writing in Time magazine, "a deadpan, dead-on observer of the whole Generation X mess." With four movies to his credit he has blended profanity and raunchy humor in his witty scripts to tell tales of a couple of convenience store philosophers in Clerks, to show scenes from a mall in the disastrous Mallrats, to portray an improbable romance between a comic book creator and a lesbian in Chasing Amy, and to poke fun at organized religion in the controversial Dogma. Smith is a chronicler of America's urban twenty-somethings, an irreverent and pudgy teller of tall tales from the point of view of dazed and confused young adults. More dialogue-than plot-driven, Smith's films are mainly hermetic time capsules of life in late twentieth-century America as witnessed and lived by Generation X slackers. As Stephan Talty noted in a Playboy...