Mallrats

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Mallrats

“Mallrats” is a film which appeared on the scene in . The film was directed by Kevin Smith, the director of such comic masterpieces as “Clerks”, “Chasing Amy”, “Dogma”, and the most recent, “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”. The movie stars Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Shannen Doherty, Claire Forlani, Michael Rooker, Ben Affleck, Renee Humphrey, and Ethan Suplee. Kevin Smith makes his usual appearance as Silent Bob, and Jason Mewes returns as pothead Jay.
The plot is basically this: twentysomethings T.S. (London) and Brodie (Lee) have just been broken up with by their girlfriends. T.S. has planned a trip for months to Florida, but his girlfriend Brandi (Forlani) has other ideas… She is to appear on a local game show produced by her father, (who hates T.S. with a passion) Mr. Svenning (Michael Rooker). The show is to be broadcast live from the mall. Brodie, on the other hand, gets dumped by his girlfriend Rene (Doherty) because she is tired of Brodie’s obsession with comic books and video games and lack of affection.
T.S. and Brodie decide to go to the mall because Brodie wants to get
comic books and T.S. wants revenge. Though the film was set in New Jersey, the majority of the action was shot at a mall in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Once T.S. and Brodie get to the mall, they stumble upon an array of strange, hilarious characters. The first person they meet up with is Willem (Suplee), who is obsessed with seeing the hidden picture in a Magic Eye print. He literally spends the entire day at the mall staring at one picture, hoping to see a sailboat. The next person they come upon is Shannon (Affleck), a stuck-up bastard who works at a store called “The Fashionable Male”. Shannon ends up stealing Rene from Brodie as the movie progresses. The next person they come upon is Trisha (Humphrey), who is a fifteen-year-old genius. She is in the process of writing a book about male sexual patterns...