Chasing Amy

Chasing Amy is a 1997 romantic comedy film about two comic book artists: one a heterosexual man, the other a lesbian woman. Written and directed by Kevin Smith, it chronicles how they fall in love and how their relationship ends.

The male lead is played by Ben Affleck; the female is played by Joey Lauren Adams[?]. Both have appeared in other Kevin Smith movies. Affleck's character is Holden McNeil; Holden's best friend and partner in comics is Banky Edwards, played by Jason Lee[?], who has also appeared in other Kevin Smith movies. The movie is notorious for having brought the sexual technique of fisting into the public consciousness.

The so-called New Jersey films are:

• Clerks
• Mallrats
• Chasing Amy
• Dogma
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

External link

• The Internet Movie Database entry on Chasing Amy (http://us.imdb.com/Details?0118842)