Chasing Amy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[tamara]

When Jay tells Holden that "there's one [woman] in the world. One [woman], with many faces," he is paraphrasing the devil in Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), who tries to convince Jesus of the same thing.

[darrell]

When Jason Lee is drawing in front of Ben Affleck after their argument, you can see Jason's drawings change drastically.

[beth]

Kevin Smith: [off-screen grab] When Banky asks whether Alyssa looks at herself in the mirror, Holden grabs him and pulls him from off-camera.

[sophie]

The Button on Hooper's jacket scene says "The Black Man is God". It was found and suggested by Dwight Ewell.

[edgar]

This movie is mentioned in "Love Cliche" by Bran Van 3000, both by name, and by reference to one of the themes of this film.

[steve]

On the commentary menu of the CritERion Collection DVD, a scene plays showing the recording session of the commentary track. Kevin Smith mockingly compares Ben Affleck to George Clooney. "I could be a pediatrician", says Affleck, refERring to Clooney's role in ER (1994), and Smith responds with, "Yeah, but can you be Batman?" refERring to Clooney's role in Batman & Robin (1997). Affleck would latER play Batman in Batman v SupERman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

[tom]

The scar scene is an homage to the scar scene from Jaws (1975). The line "I got that beat" in reference to a scar and putting a leg on a table to show it is a copy from the same scene in Jaws.

[charlie]

Alyssa Jones' appearance in this film was foreshadowed in Smith's previous film, Clerks (1994). In that film, we meet her sister, Heather. Alyssa mentions her best friend who "fucked a dead guy in the bathroom", something Caitlin Bree did in the previous film. Holden mentions a sister of hers, who "wrote the book". This other sister, Tricia, appeared in Mallrats (1995).

[oscar]

Banky says during the "oral sex scars" scene in the club that he can't move his head far to the right because of the Brandi Svenning's father. Brandi Svenning is T.S.'s girlfriend in Mallrats (1995). Her father is the main antagonist of that film.

[jeffrey]

One of Banky's hecklers at the beginning of the movie (accusing him of being a tracer), is Ben Affleck's younger brother Casey.

[jesus]

In one scene, Banky is wearing a T-shirt featuring the characters from the comic book "Gold Digger", created by Fred Perry.

[linda]

Ben Affleck and Joey Lauren Adams appeared in Dazed and Confused (1993).

[jeffrey]

The park scene on the swings between Holden and Alyssa was filmed at Victory Park in Rumson, New Jersey.