Chasing Amy (1997)
Chasing Amy (1997)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Ben Affleck
Holden McNeil
Joey Lauren Adams
Alyssa Jones
Jason Lee
Banky Edwards
Dwight Ewell
Hooper LaMont
Jason Mewes
Jay
Kevin Smith
Silent Bob / Director / Screenplay / Editor
Ethan Suplee
Fan
Scott Mosier
Collector / Producer / Editor
Casey Affleck
Little Kid
Matt Damon
Shawn Oran
Brian O'Halloran
Jim Hicks
Carmen Llywelyn
Kim
Guinevere Turner
Singer
Joe Quesada
Himself
Welker White
Jane
Mike Allred
Himself
David Pirner
Original Music Composer
David Klein
Director of Photography / Camera Operator / Steadicam Operator / Second Unit Director
Christopher Del Coro
Costume Design
Shana Lory
Casting
Derrick Tseng
Line Producer
Robert Hawk
Associate Producer
John M. Tyson
First Assistant Director
Linda Krantz
Second Assistant Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 4, 1997
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 54m
Budget$250,000
Box Office$12,021,272
Filming LocationsNew Jersey, United States
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This Movie Is About.
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Chasing Amy is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams and Jason Lee. The third film in Smith's View Askewniverse series, the film is about a male comic artist (Affleck) who falls in love with a lesbian (Adams), to the displeasure of his best friend (Lee).
The film was originally inspired by a brief scene from an early film 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. Smith was dating Adams at the time he was writing the script, which was also partly inspired by her.
The film received mostly positive reviews which praised the humor, the performances and Kevin Smith's direction. The film won two awards at the 1998 Independent Spirit Awards (Best Screenplay for Smith and Best Supporting Actor for Lee). Characters from the film would go on to appear in later Askewniverse films Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), direct spin-offs of Chasing Amy, with Affleck, Lee, Adams and Ewell reprising their roles in cameo appearances; Smith described the characters' roles in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot as being an "eight-page sequel" to Chasing Amy.