Chasing Amy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts



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  • Chasing Amy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts


  • Kevin Smith wrote the script inspired by his experience with then-girlfriend Joey Lauren Adams.

  • Chasing Amy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts


  • At the nightclub, Banky and Hooper get into a debate about the sex lives of Archie Andrews and his friends. In an early film role, Ben Affleck appeared, uncredited, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) with Luke Perry; until his death in 2019, Perry played Archie's father Fred in Riverdale (2017).

  • Chasing Amy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts


  • Joey Lauren Adams wrote the song she sings. It was originally a country song, but Kevin Smith requested they pump it up a bit.

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  • During the scene where Holden and Alyssa are playing darts, men are going in and out of the women's bathroom and women are going in and out of the men's bathroom.

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  • Holden says he attended a school named Hudson, which is the real school that Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes graduated from.

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  • When Holden and Hooper X are in the music store, that's actually Jack's Music Shoppe, on Broad Street, in Red Bank, New Jersey. Across the street is Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash, Kevin Smith's comic shop, and above it, is Holden and Banky's apartment.

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  • Carmen Llywelyn (Kim, Alyssa's lesbian lover) was the wife of Jason Lee (credited as Carmen Lee). Joey Lauren Adams, who played Alyssa was Kevin Smith's girlfriend.

  • Chasing Amy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts


  • The last comic shown in the opening credits (Wizard) which shows Chronic breaking through glass is a recreation of Detective Comics issue 38 where the character of Robin was introduced.

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  • During the argument between Alyssa and Holden outside of the hockey game, Alyssa mentions that she left her prom early to have sex with her date and Gwen Turner. Joey Lauren Adams played Gwen Turner in Mallrats (1995).

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  • One of the "Bluntman and Chronic" comic books at the end of the movie has an almost identical cover to that of "A Death in the Family", which is a Batman comic.

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  • When Jason Mewes recorded the commentary track in 1997, he often fell in and out of sleep like a narcoleptic, due to his drug addiction. Kevin Smith stated he was "thin, dirty, and barely conscious" when they recorded it.

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  • Towards the end of the movie while Banky is signing autographs, you can hear a lady say over the intercom that a little boy has been stuck in an escalator, which is a reference to Mallrats (1995), where Jason Lee's character goes on a rant about parents not watching their kids and how unsupervised kids could get stuck in an escalator.

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  • In the scene in the club where Alyssa is singing to a woman and proceeds to kiss after the song is over is Jason Lee's wife at the time Carmen Lee. So when they are sharing stories and Alyssa is heavily kissing her, Jason Lee is watching his present wife making out with Kevin Smith the director's girlfriend at the time in real life.

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  • The scene between Alyssa, Holden, and Banky at the nightclub, discussing problems with oral sex was originally written for Mallrats (1995), between T.S., Brodie, and Gwen. Brodie and Banky were played by Jason Lee and Alyssa and Gwen were played by Joey Lauren Adams.

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  • In the 2010s, Kevin Smith went on to admit that the film's handling of homosexuality was problematic.

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  • This is the only "Jay and Silent Bob" film where the two characters only appear in one scene, as opposed to reappearing throughout the film.

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  • Holden and Banky are both characters in J.D. Salinger's novel, "The Catcher in the Rye". In the novel, "Ed Banky" was a gym teacher, who would let students borrow his car, so they could make-out and have sex with their girlfriends.

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  • Quentin Tarantino's favorite film of 1997.

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  • Kevin Smith: [comic books] The main characters are all comic book creators.

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