“Chasing Amy” ( Eng. Chasing Amy ) is a film by American filmmaker Kevin Smith . “Chasing Amy” is the latest film from the Jersey Trilogy. The film is dedicated to the relationship between a heterosexual man and a bisexual .
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Genre | drama / comedy |
Producer | Kevin Smith |
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Author script | Kevin Smith |
In the main cast | Joey lauren adams Ben affleck Jason lee Jason Mewes Kevin Smith |
Operator | David Klein |
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Budget | $ 250 thousand. [1] |
Fees | $ 12,021,272 [2] |
A country | USA |
Tongue | English |
Year | 1997 |
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IMDb | ID 0118842 |
Story
Holden and Bankie are friends, as well as partners in the creation of the comic book "Pykhar and the Chronicles" [3] ( eng. Bluntman and Chronic ), whose prototypes of the main characters are Jay and Silent Bob . One day, Holden meets Alissa. The girl also draws comics. Holden falls in love with her, but his hopes are crumbling when he learns that Alissa is a lesbian .
After some shock, Holden continues to care for Alyssa, which his friend Bankie doesn’t like very much. In the end, Holden gets his way, and Alyssa becomes his girlfriend. However, things are not going as smoothly as they would like. Banki finds Holden and Alyssa’s general school acquaintances, who say that Alyssa has a rich sexual past behind her, not only with people of her own sex. Holden is tormented by new knowledge about his girlfriend, and he gives her an interrogation right at the hockey game. Alyssa admits that she had group sex experience. Holden thinks for a long time how to solve the existing difficulties with his girlfriend and his best friend. He decides to bring them together and offer to have sex. He gets Bankie's consent, but Alissa refuses. Before leaving, she says she loves Holden, but will not be his concubine. Bankie also leaves, thus ending their friendship.
A year later, Bankie and Holden present their comics at an exhibition in New York. Former friends see each other, but communicate from afar, using gestures and facial expressions. Bankie smiles sadly when he sees his friend again. It becomes clear that Holden left the publishing house and sold his rights to Pykhar and the Chronicle to Bankie. Bankie gestures at Alissa and gestures to persuade him to approach her. Holden has a short conversation with Alissa, and he gives her a copy of his chase for Amy, based on their failed relationship. After Holden leaves, Alyssa's new girlfriend asks who she was talking to. Trying to seem indifferent, Alyssa replies: "Just a guy I knew."
Cast
- Joy Lauren Adams - Alyssa Jones
- Ben Affleck - Holden MacNeil
- Jason Lee - Bankie Edwards
- Jason Mewes - Jay
- Kevin Smith - Silent Bob
- Ethan Supley - Fan
- Scott Mosier - Collector
- Matt Damon - Sean Oran (cameo)
- Brian O'Halloran - Jim Hicks (cameo)
- Guinevere Turner - Singer
Criticism Reaction
Reviewers treated the picture very well, as evidenced by a score of 91% on the Rotten Tomatoes review aggregator . The film also helped Ben Affleck's acting career.
Referring to other movies
- The film has references to Kevin Smith’s previous work “ Clerks ” and “ Lobotryasy ”, which thus links them to the View Askewniverse universe, in which there are characters such as Jay and the silent Bob . However, Ben Affleck and Jason Lee starred in " Lobotryah ", but there they played very different characters.
- Character Joey Loren Adams in a club conversation with a character Ben Affleck mentions her two girlfriends, one of whom in the store's closet had sex with the dead and got a strong psychological shock from this, and the second died in the pool. We are talking about Caitlin Bree, school love of one of the main characters of the film " Clerks " Dante Hicks (actor Brian O'Halloran who played that role, also played a cameo role in the film, but also as Affleck and Lee, for another character). And the girl who drowned in the pool, a character who did not have an actor in " Lobotryah ", but which was mentioned at the beginning of the film - she died due to blockage of blood vessels due to a long stay in the water. Forced her by one of the main characters of TC, who pointed to her extra weight, as a result of which she tried to lose weight.
- When Jason Lee's character mentions a conversation with a former classmate by the name of Koi Landin, the character is shown against the background of the very shop of “ Clerks ” where the already mentioned Dante Hicks character worked.
Cash fees
With a budget of $ 250 thousand, the rental picture collected $ 12,021,272. [1]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Chasing Amy: Synopsis , View Askew Productions . The appeal date is January 18, 2009.
- ↑ Chasing Amy (1997) , Box Office Mojo . The appeal date is January 18, 2009.
- ↑ Or "Puffer and the Chronicles" - a comic parody of the superhero tandem of Batman and Robin .
Links
- Official film site
- Chasing Amy on the Internet Movie Database
- "Chasing Amy" (English) on Box Office Mojo
- Chasing Amy (English) on the Metacritic website
- Chasing Amy (English) on the Rotten Tomatoes website
- Chasing Amy at the Criterion Collection
- DailyScript.com - The Chasing Amy screenplay.