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Chasing Amy
Sex Is Easy. Love Is Hard.
( Comedy / Drama / Romance )


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MPAA Rating:
R
[strong graphic sex-related dialogue‚ language‚ sexuality and drug content]

US Runtime: 111 min

Premiere Date:
Apr 04, 1997   [USA]
 
Director: Kevin Smith
 
Writer: Kevin Smith   [written by]
 
Cinematography: David Klein
 
Edited by: Scott Mosier
 
Production Company: View Askew Productions
 


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Miscellaneous Companies:

Bam Media Services, Inc.
post-production sound services
Gizmo Enterprises, Inc.
Avid editing
Post Perfect, Inc.
Avid editing
 
REI Media Group
titles and opticals
The Broadway Grill
catering
Weissman / Angelotti
publicity
 
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$250,000 (USA)
Camera:
Arriflex Super 16
Color Info:
Color (Technicolor)
Laboratory:
Guffanti Film Laboratory, USA/Technicolor East, New York, USA
Sound Mix:
the double-d symbol Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Super 16
Film Negative Format:
16 mm - Kodak
Printed Film Format:
35 mm - blow-up
Film Length:
3163 m

Quotes:

  • Banky: I feel a hate crime coming on.
     
  • Banky: This is all going to end badly.
     
  • Hooper: Check this shit. You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!
    Banky: What's a Nubian?
    Hooper: Shut the fuck up!
     
  • Hooper: For years in this industry, whenever an African American character, hero or villain, was introduced - usually by white artists and writers - they got slapped with racist names that singled them out as Negroes. Now, my book, "White-Hating Coon," don't have none of that bullshit. The hero's name is Maleekwa, and he's descended from the black tribe that established the first society on the planet, while all you European...
    Holden: Ah, that's a bunch of horse-shit! Lando Calrissian was a black guy. He got to fly the Millenium Falcon!
    Hooper: Who said that?
    Holden: I did! Lando Calrissian is a strong role-model for the African-American community!
    Hooper: Man, fuck Lando Calrissian! Uncle-Tom nigger!
     
  • Banky: All every woman really wants, be it mother, senator, nun, is some serious deep-dickin'.
     

Trivia:

  • When Holden and Alyssa go skee-balling, there is a coin machine with the name "Gottlieb" on it (a major arcade-game maker). Carl Gottlieb was the co-writer of the Jaws screenplay, favorite film of director Kevin Smith.
     
  • The sign for the Manhattan Comiccon notes that the event is presented by "Flanagan Events". This is a reference to Walter Flanagan, who played several roles in both Clerks. and Mallrats. He was supposed to be in Chasing Amy as Walt the fan boy, but his Scenes were deleted.
     
  • Banky's comic "Baby Dave" is a reference to David Klein, director of photography for Clerks., Mallrats, and Chasing Amy.
     
  • Kevin smith wrote the three issues of the "Bluntman and Chronic" comic book that Holden and Banky produce within the film, and released them through Image Comics. Inside each issue, Smith credited: Written by Banky Edwards and Holden McNeil, Pencils by Holden McNeil, Inks by Banky Edwards.
     
  • The Button on Hooper's jacket during the "black rage" scene says "The Black Man is God."
     

Credits Fun:

  • After the end credits, Jay and Silent Bob have a final exchange.
     
  • Jay and Silent Bob will return in Dogma (we promise)
     
  • The director would like to thank...

    GOD - For all that's come before, all that'll come after, and most importantly, for right now.
    JOEY - For giving me something personal to say. I love you poopie. (First one who laughs gets decked!)
    SCOTT - Master of the Impossible, ying to my yang, heart of my heart... He's my cherry pie.
    BEN - Outstanding. Outstanding, this guy.
    JASON LEE - For kicking it Reynold's style.
    DWIGHT - Hi Duh-Wight.
    JAY - My little Mewes.
    JON GORDON - Why, Why, Why?!?
    MOM & DAD - I know I've got a PG in me somewhere.
    JOHN PIERSON - Guru, Czar, friend.
    DAVE - For the prettiest pictures yet. At bargain basement prices, no less!
    BOB HAWK - For being there from the start, teaching us what makes a movie great, and always doing the dishes.
    HARVEY - Who, like a good parent, gives us money, offers endless moral support, and spanks us when we need spanking (okay... everything but the spanking part).
    MIKE ALLRED - For fulfilling this fanboy's dream. See you in the funny papers.
    THE CAST AND CREW - Who worked for nothing, yet gave everything.
    MATT SEITZ - For the one review that made a difference.
    BRIAN MACKEWICH AND BAM - For the extra mile... and the hundred more that followed.
     
  • To all the critics that didn't like our last movie: "All is forgiven."
     

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