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Chasing Amy
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
1997 · Directed by Kevin Smith · 114 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 5 frames
Tagline
It's not who you love. It's how.
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.
Holden and Alyssa soon bond, as they grew up in the same area of New Jersey, with Holden and Banky being natives of Highlands and Alyssa being a native of Middletown. This upsets the homophobic Banky, who resents Alyssa for intervening in their affairs. The duo's business partnership also suffers, as they had almost signed a lucrative deal to adapt Bluntman and Chronic into an animated television series, and Banky feels that Holden has abandoned their project.
Unable to conceal his feelings any longer, Holden eventually confesses his love to Alyssa. She is initially angry and upset with him, but they later reconcile and begin a romantic relationship that night, which worsens things with Banky when he encounters them sleeping on his couch in the duo's shared studio Bank-Hold-Up in Red Bank the next morning. Banky encounters an old friend of his, who grew up with Alyssa and tells him she participated in a ménage à trois with two boys back in high school, which earned her the nickname "Finger Cuffs". Banky relays the story to Holden, who becomes deeply disturbed by the revelation, having believed himself to be the first man Alyssa had ever slept with.
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Crew
- Written by: Kevin Smith
- Cinematography: David Klein
- Edited by: Kevin Smith, Scott Mosier
- Music: David Pirner
- Production design: Robert Holtzman
- Produced by: Scott Mosier
Cast
- Ben Affleck as Holden McNeil
- Joey Lauren Adams as Alyssa Jones
- Jason Lee as Banky Edwards
- King Mustafa Obafemi as Hooper LaMont
- Jason Mewes as Jay
- Kevin Smith as Silent Bob
- Ethan Suplee as Fan
- Scott Mosier as Collector
- Casey Affleck as Little Kid
- Matt Damon as Shawn Oran
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: View Askew Productions, Miramax
- Budget: $250,000
- Box office: $12,021,272
- Themes: coming out, new jersey, love of one's life, bisexuality, menage a trois, comic book, romcom, comic-strip artist, best friend, lgbt
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