Critic alleged "The king of Generation X cinema" Kevin Smith was born in Highland, New Jersey. He lived a normal suburban childhood of church, school, and comic books. After a semester of college and four months of film school; Kevin found himself working at a convenience store for $5 dollars and hour. The experience gave him his idea for his first project.

Kevin wrote the screenplay for the movie Clerks, which was a black and white account of the life of a convenient store clerk. The movie recieved awards at Sundance and Cannes. By the age of 24 Kevin had already introduced his educated directorial halitosis unto Hollywood with only $27 thousand dollars and a dream.

Kevin's next $6 million dollar film about teenage realtionships and politics based in a mall Mallrats flopped at the box office but become one of the largest underground independent comedies of all time in video sales.

At the age of 26 Kevin released Chaising Amy which was a film about a lonely conservative comic illustrator/writer who falls in love with an insubordinate open minded lesbiam from his home town. It shows the consequencies of past decisions introduced into an opposite sex relationships.

Kevin resides in New Jersey with his View Askew Productions and his chain of comic book stores. He is currently writing the screenplay for Warner Brother's Superman Lives and is awaiting the debut of his new film Dogma.

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