Chasing Amy (Blu-ray) (1997)

Director: Kevin Smith  Starring: Ben Affleck  Joey Lauren Adams  Jason Lee  
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Publisher: Buena Vista Home Video
Format: Blu-Ray DVD
UPC: 00786936788945
Buy.com Sku: 211949248
Item#: V2Y4TS
Buy.com Sales Rank: 27712
Category Keywords: Friends  Gay/Lesbian  Recommended  Romance  Self-Discovery  Theatrical Release 
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Editor's Note

When handsome young comic book creator Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck) meets cute young comic book creator Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams), romance seems preordained. But Holden is soon confronted with Alyssa's complex sexual history, as well as his friend and colleague Banky's (Jason Lee) conflicted and enraged response to the affair. Despite the seriousness of the issues, director Kevin Smith keeps the laughs coming, even as Holden goes through hell and grows up.


Plot Summary

Kevin Smith's third film was critically acclaimed for its adroitness in balancing complex, adult sexual issues with jokes about bodily functions. The two Garden State guys this time around are Holden (Ben Affleck) and Banky (Jason Lee). At a comic book convention, the co-creators of "Bluntman and Chronic" meet Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams), a New Jersey native who draws a comic entitled "Idiosyncratic Routine." Holden thinks they click, but proceeds to discover that Alyssa is a lesbian--then manages to convince her to take a chance on him anyway. The real conflict comes when Holden gets hung up on Alyssa's checkered sexual past. What's more, Banky mounts an anti-Alyssa campaign whose intensity and bile Holden can't understand. The script came out of Smith's real-life relationship with Adams, and represents a flowering of the themes of friendship and sexual jealousy which the director first explored in CLERKS. Smith fans can rest assured, however, that STAR WARS is discussed (this time as a racist allegory) and that Jay and Silent Bob do appear to dispense relationship wisdom (and collect royalties for their comic book likenesses).

 
Features
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English, Spanish
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, Spanish
DTS HD Master Audio - English, Spanish
Subtitles - Spanish


 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video
Release Date: 11/17/2009
Running Time: 113 minutes
Original Release Date: 1997
UPC: 00786936788945
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Welker White
Jason Mewes
Ernie O'Donnell
Brian O'Halloran
Tony Torin
Matt Damon
Ben Affleck
Kristin Mosier
Ethan Suplee
Virginia Smith
Scott Mosier
Joey Lauren Adams
Kelli Simpkins
Guinevere Turner
Paris Petrick
Kevin Smith
Dan Lunney
Casey Affleck
Tsemach Washington
Jason Lee
Rebecca Waxman
Carmen Lee
Dwight Ewell
John Willyung
Scott Mosier - Producer
Christopher Del Coro - Costume Designer
Scott Mosier - Editor
David Pirner - Composer
John Pierson - Producer
Kevin Smith - Editor
Robert "Ratface" Holtzman - Production Designer
David Klein - Director of Photography
Kevin Smith - Screenwriter
Robert Hawk - Producer
Kevin Smith - Director

 
Professional Reviews
Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...A riotous, ferociously smart love story....[Adams has] four dimensions and a mouth big enough to prove it..." 12/01/1998 p.95

USA Today
"...This is Smith's most provocative outing yet and certainly the toughest to forget..." 04/11/1997 p.4D

Film Comment
"...The film's great strength is its screenplay, which approaches its actors with moving emotional honesty..." 03/01/1997 p.55

New York Times
"...Still showing his touch for garrulous, hair-splitting conversation, Mr. Smith engages his characters in a bright spirited demonstration of just how difficult modern love can be..." 04/04/1997 p.C3

Los Angeles Times
"...A little movie with big truths, a work of such fierce intelligence and emotional honesty that it blows away the competition when it comes to contemporary romantic comedy..." 04/11/1997 p.F12

Total Film
"...A touching, funny love story..." 09/01/2000 p.102

  
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