Kevin Smith’s latter movies have mostly been calling back to his more famous films like Jay and Silent Bob Reboot and Clerks III, but the cult director is going to theatres with an original movie called The 4:30 Movie this month.
If the trailer didn’t get you hyped enough for the film, a new clip has been released for the movie which features some of its biggest stars including Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka) and Kate Micucci (of Garfunkel and Oates fame). Check this out:
For context, the synopsis of the movie reads:
Writer-director Kevin Smith presents his most personal film to date with this coming-of-age story — set in the summer of 1986 — that follows three sixteen-year-old friends who spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local cineplex. When one of the guys invites the girl of his dreams to see an R-rated film, all hilarity breaks loose, as a self-important theater manager (Ken Jeong) and teen rivalries interfere with his best-laid plans.
Besides Dawson and Micucci, the film has also been able to gather a bunch of Smith’s celebrity friends including Justin Long, Jason Lee, and Jason Biggs. Fingers crossed that Ben Affleck makes a small cameo.
Admittedly, Smith is in kind of a nostalgia phase right now, having produced a revival of an ‘80s property with Netflix’s Masters of the Universe, but I am a fan of his more personal films, and it does look like The 4:30 Movie is an ode to his youth growing up in the 80s.
So far the humor looks fun, and with Smith you can always expect some Tarantino-level quickfire dialogue.
The 4:30 Movie is now showing in theaters.
