Bless this House maybe, I can't remember
The film starred many of the main stars from the TV series but some were missing and were replaced. Plot. 1970s English suburbia: middle-aged homeowner Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whisky still, but is frustrated by his workshy son, and otherworldly daughter. Then the rude and arrogant Ronald Baines and his family move in next door.
Clerks. A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.
I really love this film. If someone had shown me the script, I would have dismissed it entirely as not being at all my kind of thing. It was though one of several films I rented from a video shop one morning at the moment it opened. That in itself was unusual. It had been a sleepless night, I was feeling quite ill and I just took the first three films I saw without thinking. My hope was that at least one would cheer me up. Within minutes I went from doom and gloom to hysteria, rolling around on the floor with the corn flakes and toast.
When preconceptions disintegrate in that way, the rational mind looks for justification. Reasons need to be found as to why it was bound to have been "my kind of film" all along. And actually that wasn't difficult. I like low budget independent films, appreciate the punk ethos to some degree, view black and white as an equal to colour and the story of how it was shot around regular work in a video shop very much appealed.