Editing Chasing Amy (section)

{{short description|1997 film by Kevin Smith}}
{{for|the Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode|Chasing Amy (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Chasing Amy
| image          = Chasing Amy film.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Kevin Smith]]
| producer       = [[Scott Mosier]]
| writer         = Kevin Smith
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Ben Affleck]]
* [[Joey Lauren Adams]]
* [[Jason Lee]]
* [[Dwight Ewell]]
* [[Jason Mewes]]}}
| music          = [[David Pirner]]
| cinematography = [[Dave Klein (cinematographer)|David Klein]]
| editing        = Scott Mosier<br />Kevin Smith
| studio         = {{plainlist|
* [[View Askew Productions]]
* [[View Askew Productions|Too Askew Prod., Inc.]]
}}
| distributor    = [[Miramax Films]]
| released       = {{Film date|1997|1|24|[[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]]|1997|4|4}}
| runtime        = 113 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $250,000<ref name="productions1">{{cite news|url=http://viewaskew.com/chasingamy/synopsis.html|title=Chasing Amy: Synopsis|access-date=January 18, 2009|work=[[View Askew Productions]]}}</ref>
| gross          = $12 million<ref name="BOM">{{cite news|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=chasingamy.htm|title=Chasing Amy (1997)|access-date=January 18, 2009|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref>
}}
'''''Chasing Amy''''' is a 1997 American [[Romance film|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 inspired by a brief scene from an early film by a friend of Smith's. In [[Guinevere Turner]]'s ''[[Go Fish (film)|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.<ref name=Criterion>{{cite web |first=Kevin |last=Smith |author-link=Kevin Smith |date= June 26, 2000 | url = http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/79 | title = The Hows and Whys of ''Chasing Amy'' | work = The Criterion Collection | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081209052031/http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/79 | archive-date = December 9, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>

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 [[Dwight 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''.