Chasing Amy

Chasing Amy
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kevin Smith
Written by	Kevin Smith
Produced by	Scott Mosier
Starring	Ben Affleck Joey Lauren Adams Jason Lee Dwight Ewell Jason Mewes
Cinematography	David Klein
Edited by	Scott Mosier Kevin Smith
Music by	David Pirner
Production companies	View Askew Productions Too Askew Prod., Inc.
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release dates	January 24, 1997 (1997-01-24) (Sundance) April 4, 1997 (1997-04-04)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$250,000[1]
Box office	$12 million[2]

Chasing Amy is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams and Jason Lee. The third film in Smith's View Askewniverse series, the film is about a male comic artist (Affleck) who falls in love with a lesbian (Adams), to the displeasure of his best friend (Lee).

The film was originally inspired by a brief scene from an early film by a friend of Smith's. In Guinevere Turner's Go Fish, one of the lesbian characters imagines her friends passing judgment on her for "selling out" by sleeping with a man. Smith was dating Adams at the time he was writing the script, which was also partly inspired by her.^[3]

The film received mostly positive reviews which praised the humor, the performances and Kevin Smith's direction. The film won two awards at the 1998 Independent Spirit Awards (Best Screenplay for Smith and Best Supporting Actor for Lee). Characters from the film would go on to appear in later Askewniverse films Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), direct spin-offs of Chasing Amy, with Affleck, Lee, Adams and Ewell reprising their roles in cameo appearances; Smith described the characters' roles in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot as being an "eight-page sequel" to Chasing Amy.