He has the bladder of a 3 year old.

Funny he says you're hung like a 3 year old.

Does his mother tell him everything?

Plot

Chasing Amy is the third in the New Jersey trilogy. It is the story of "boy meets lesbian." (to quote Kevin himself) Ben Affleck is the boy, Jason Lee is his wisecracking sidekick/best friend/comic book drawing partner, and Joey Lauren Adams is the lesbian. Affleck's character, Holden, starts a relationship with a woman who besides having slept exclusively with other women for several years also has a rather wild history with men. Lee's character predicts that the two are incompatible and that it will end badly. Affleck tries to make it work but is unable to get over her sorted past.

Story

After the breakout success of Clerks and the box office failure of Mallrats Kevin began working on his third film. Unhappy with the problems of making a film for a studio he decided to make Chasing Amy as an independent feature. He got some investors to invest $250,000 (that's right just a quarter of a million dollars) in his screenplay. He described working on it as a liberating experience. On Clerks he was just trying to get it made. On Mallrats he was trying to live up to all of Clerks praise. With Chasing Amy it did not matter what the critics said, nothing could match the praise Clerks received, and nothing could match the bashing of Mallrats.

Since Kevin's micro-budget did not allow for a big casting call, he reused several actors from Mallrats. Jason Lee plays another geeky, funny, comic book loving sidekick. Adams, who was dating Kevin at the time, moves up form other girl to leading lady. Even though Affleck played only a supporting role in Mallrats, not to mention the fact that it was the role of the bad guy, Kevin felt that he had the chops to be a leading man. Of course everybody's favorite drug dealers, Jay and Silent Bob, return, alas for only one scene.

After it was made Miramax picked up the distribution rights. This one turned out to be a success both critically and commercially. Kevin was back on top in the movie biz. Affleck got a part in the Action/Sci-fi epic Armageddon. Jason Lee and Joey Lauren Adams both got acting offers coming there way. Miramax gave Kevin the go-ahead, and a 12 million dollar budget, for his next film Dogma.

Trivia

  • The girl who Alyssa passionately kisses in the nightclub scenes was played by Carmen Lee, wife of Jason Lee. Certainly must have been interesting for Lee to have to play it so nonchalant, wisecracking away while his wife makes out with another woman.
  • Holden's talk about selling out and wanting to do something more personal, like his first comic, is a non-too-subtle reference to Kevin's own situation.
  • Alyssa talks about having had sexual encounters both Gwen Turner, and Shannon Hamilton. Gwen and Shannon were played by Addams and Affleck, respectively, in Mallrats.

    • Cut Scenes

  • The original opening had Bryan Johnson and Walt Flanigan reprising the roles of Fanboy and Steve-Dave (the two geeks at the comic book store in Mallrats). They proceed to trash Holden and Bankey, Siskel and Ebert style, saying that there first comic was a great debut but they sold out with Bluntman and Chronic and are one hit wonders. The scene as cut because Miramax thought that Kevin's using the film to respond to his own critics was too self-indulgent

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