Smith was dating Adams at the time he was writing the script, which was also partly inspired by her. 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. The film was originally inspired by a brief scene from an early film by a friend of Smith's. It is the third film in Smith's View Askewniverse series. The film is about a male comic artist (Affleck) who falls in love with a bisexual woman (Adams), to the displeasure of his best friend (Lee).
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.