Chasing Amy (1997)

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Studio: Miramax Films
Rating: R
Release Date: Apr 4, 1997
Running Time: 105 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Best friends Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards are enjoying success as the creators of the cult comic book 'Bluntman and Chronic.' When they meet fellow comic book artist Alyssa Jones, Holden's desire for the beautiful charmer is immediate. Alyssa, however, has set her romantic sights elsewhere but decides, nevertheless, to pursue a friendship with Holden. This presents Holden with a dilemma: feeling the way he does, can he merely be friends with this woman? Banky, who knows Holden best, doesn't think so. As the friendship deepens, so do Holden's affections for Alyssa. And cautiously, yet effortlessly, so do Alyssa's for him. With their relationship strugging to define itself, Banky grows more and more frustrated at the notion of losing his best friend to emotional adulthood.
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December 8, 2000
Kevin Smith's third film as a writer-director-actor hyphenate is going to piss off a lot of politically correct people. It's a love story between two cartoonists: Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams), a lesbian, and Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck), a straight guy. See my point? Hang on. Smith's second film, Mallrats, pissed off a lot of people, too. That's because it wasn't as good as his first film, Clerks. In fact, Mallrats really sucked.


Chasing Amy, the last in Smith's New Jersey trilogy, is very… Continued