‘Clerks’ director Kevin Smith is buying the N.J. movie theater of his childhood.

When Kevin Smith was a kid, his father routinely let him cut school so they could go to the movies together.“Tell them your uncle died,” his old man, postal worker Donald Smith, would say.

The Wednesday matinee was the future film director’s ticket to the wonders of the big screen.Eventually, staff at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Kevin’s Highlands elementary school, informed him there were just too many dead people in his family.

Source: ‘Clerks’ director Kevin Smith is buying the N.J. movie theater of his childhood. Next up? A film school. – nj.com