| DIRECTOR: |
Kevin Smith |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Kevin Smith |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Kelly Baldwin |
| EDITION: |
Kevin Smith e Scott Mosier |
| MUSIC: |
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| CAST: |
Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren
Adams, Jason Lee, Dwight Ewell, Jason Mewes |
| PRODUCER: |
Robert Hawke |
| FESTIVALS: |
Berlim |
| PRODUCTION: |
View Askew Production 69 Broad
St., Red Bank, NJ 07701
Tel: 00 1 908 842-6933 Fax: 00 1 908 842-3772 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Miramax International
Tel: 00 1 212 941-2433 Fax: 00 1 212 941-2089 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Chasing Amy |
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Col., 105 min., 1997 |
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Born in Highlands, New Jersey in 1970, Kevin Smith began his
film career with the inexpensive and highly acclaimed Clerks in 1994, with Mallrats
the following year. His most recent work Chasing Amy is the third film of his
"New Jersey" trilogy on the behaviors and attitudes of Generation X.
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Holden McNeil and
Banky Edwards are not only good friends. They also work together and produced two comic
strip heroes: Bluntman and Chronic that gained a cult status amongst the aficionados of
the genre. Things, however, took a different turn when they meet beautiful Alyssa Jones
who also works in comic strips. Holden does all he can to win her who eventually manifests
her preference for the company of women. She does not, however, have anything against a
platonic friendship with the boy. This puts him into a difficult position. After all he
does not want to be just a good friend. And Banky, who perceives Holden's sexual interest
for Alyssa knows that this will be impossible. Holden, however, can not get her out of his
mind. They spend more and more time together and this only arouses the boy's passion even
further and, consequently, awakens her feelings for him. The complicated romance
eventually brings with it a rift between the two friends, especially at work, while Alyssa
proves herself ever more determined to carry on with the affair. Midst encounters and
arguments, the story unfolds in amusing and unusual situations.