The film sets out with a simple question: Why, as a 12-year-old, did director Sav Rodgers become obsessed with the movie Chasing Amy, and what does the film’s seemingly progressive (at the time) gender and sexuality politics, which includes frank depictions of out and happy LGBTQ+ characters, hold up to a modern lens? Chasing Chasing Amy comes at a curious time. Still, the nostalgia for the late ‘90s and early 2000s culture is at a fever pitch, but the film meanders, in the best sense of the word, as it begins to encompass new questions and documents the filmmakers’ life, too.
As the events of making the film unfold, Rodgers befriends Chasing Amy director, Smith, and comes out as a trans man. Rodgers also proposes to his then-girlfriend and now-wife, Riley, and gets a deeper understanding of the deep emotions behind the making of Smith’s film. By the time the viewer is on the other end of the narrative, we’ve got a deeper understanding of three relationships — the pair in the film, Smith and Chasing Amy star Joey Lauren Adams, as well as Rodgers and his wife — while also hearing the saga of making the film from Adams herself, who was dealing with both an emotional breakup and the misogynistic Hollywood machine.
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