Chasing Amy 1997

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 111 min

genre: comedy-drama

theme: romantic comedy

director: Kevin Smith

Score: 7 / 10

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).

Plot

While promoting their comic Bluntman and Chronic at a comic book convention in the Manhattan borough of New York City, comic book artists and lifelong best friends Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards meet Alyssa Jones. A struggling writer working on her own comic Idiosyncratic Routine, Alyssa is friends with Hooper, an African-American activist writer who militantly masks his flamboyantly gay personality to promote his comic White-Hating Coon. Immediately attracted to her, Holden soon discovers her lesbianism while at an East Village bar called the Meow Mix.

Awards

Cast

More details

author	Kevin Smith
award	Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
contentLocation	New Jersey
director	Kevin Smith
editor	Kevin Smith Scott Mosier
events	LGBT-related film
genre	comedy-drama
keywords	abandon animate best friend bluntman and chronic business partner comic book artist comic book convention disturb jay and silent bob kiss manhattan ménage à trois morning new york city old friend parking lot publish sleep struggling writer threesome
musicBy	Dave Pirner
nomination	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay
producer	Scott Mosier
productionCompany	Too Askew Prod., Inc. View Askew Productions
publisher	Miramax Films
recordedAt	New Jersey
theme	high school independent romantic comedy