Chasing Amy
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
- Ben Affleck
- Brian Jude
- Brian Lynch
- Brian O'Halloran
- Bryan Johnson
- Carmen Llywelyn
- Casey Affleck
- Dwight Ewell
- Ernest O'Donnell
- Ethan Suplee
- Guinevere Turner
- Illeana Douglas
- Jason Lee
- Jason Mewes
- Joe Quesada
- Joey Lauren Adams
- Kevin Smith
- Matt Damon
- Mike Allred
- Monica Hampton
- Rebecca Waxman
- Scott Mosier
- Tse-Mach Washington
- Vincent Pereira
- Walt Flanagan
- Welker White