Alyssa Jones

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 film is about a male comic artist (Affleck) who falls in love with a lesbian woman (Adams), to the displeasure of his best friend (Lee). It is the third film in Smiths View Askewniverse series.The film was originally inspired by a brief scene from an early film by a friend of Smiths. In Guinevere Turners 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, praising the humor, performances and Kevin Smiths 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 describing the characters roles in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot as being an eight-page sequel to Chasing Amy.

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