Chasing Amy
Overview
Chasing Amy is a 1997 romantic comedy film
Romantic comedy film
Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily"...

 written and directed by Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian/raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob...

. The central tension revolves around sexuality, sexual history, and evolving friendships. It is the third film in Smith's View Askewniverse
View Askewniverse
The View Askewniverse is a fictional universe created by writer/director Kevin Smith, featured in several films, comics and a television series; it is named for Smith's production company, View Askew Productions. The characters Jay and Silent Bob appear in almost all the View Askewniverse media,...

 series.

The film contains explicit sexual dialogue, and was originally inspired by a brief scene from an early movie by a friend of Smith's. In Guinevere Turner
Guinevere Turner
Guinevere Turner is an American actress, writer and director. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She is best known as the screenwriter of such films as American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page and for playing the lead role of the dominatrix Tanya Cheex in Preaching to the Perverted.-...

's Go Fish
Go Fish (film)
Go Fish is a 1994 American lesbian-themed independent drama film. Directed and co-written by Rose Troche, the film tells the story of the interrelationships of a small group of lesbian friends in Chicago...

, one of the lesbian characters imagines her friends passing judgment on her for "selling out" by sleeping with a man.
Quotations

This is all going to end badly.

All every woman really wants, be it mother, senator, nun, is some serious deep-dickin'.

I feel a hate crime coming on.

[to Alyssa] Since you like chicks, right, do you just look at yourself naked in the mirror all the time?

Archie is not fucking Mr. Weatherbee!

[on having sex] Like CNN and the Weather Channel: constant updates.

Now THAT, my friend, is a shared moment.

What difference does it make if I refer to her as a dyke? Or if I call the Whalers a bunch of faggots in the comfort of my own office, far from the sensitive ears of the rest of the world?

I'm going to prove to you beyond a shadow of a doubt that Archie is all about pussy.

Everyone has an agenda. Everyone.

 
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