Chasing Amy
Director: Kevin Smith
Genre: Comedy, LGBT, Romantic comedy, Sex comedy, Romance Film, Indie, Comedy-drama, Drama
Year: 1997
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Dwight Ewell, Jason Mewes, Ethan Suplee, Virginia Smith, Brian O'Halloran, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, Jason Lee, Kevin Smith, Scott Mosier, Guinevere Turner, Carmen Llywelyn
Chasing Amy is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith. The central tension revolves around sexuality, sexual history, and evolving friendships. It is the third film in Smith's View Askewniverse series.
The film contains explicit sexual dialogue, and was originally inspired by a brief scene from an early movie by a friend of Smith's. In Guinevere Turner's Go Fish, one of the lesbian characters imagines her friends passing judgment on her for "selling out" by sleeping with a man. Kevin Smith was dating star Joey Lauren Adams at the time he was writing the script, which was also partly inspired by her.
The film won two awards at the 1998 Independent Spirit Awards (Best Screenplay for Smith and Best Supporting Actor for Jason Lee).
Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck) and Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) are comic book artists and lifelong friends. Holden is the calmer, more reasonable of the duo; Banky, meanwhile, is the caustic and short-tempered half. Everything is going well for them until they meet Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams) at a comic book convention in New York where they are promoting their comic Bluntman and Chronic. Holden is attracted to Alyssa, but soon
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