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...youthful romantic angst. But Chasing Amy doesn't try to shift the blame for its heedlessness to its times or the social structure. It doesn't believe there's magic in true love, either. That makes it a true movie rarity: a brutally honest romance. If you loved Sleepless in Seattle, you'll just hate...
...movie seems unaware of the depths of Jacey's sexual vengefulness. It's played as romantic rebellion, something he'll outgrow. Meantime ain't he cute, girls, all broody and snotty--just the thing to give your parents plenty of sleepless nights. What Inventing the Abbotts is aware of are all those lock-up-your-daughters movies of the 1950s, to which for some dotty reason it is eager to prove its superiority of understanding. But the goofy hysteria of something like A Summer Place was infinitely more entertaining and emotionally authentic than the distant smugness of this failed clone...
MOVIES . . . CHASING AMY: "If you loved 'Sleepless in Seattle,' you?ll just hate 'Chasing Amy,''" says TIME's Richard Schickel. As director Kevin Smith proved with a few bucks and some black-and-white film stock in 'Clerks,' he?s an original, a deadpan, dead-on observer of the whole Gen-X mess. In 'Chasing Amy,' he has moved up slightly?color film, more than one setting, scenes with actual extras in them. But he?s still a guy making two-shots of people talking about their troubles, working them through on the basis of faulty information and silly suppositions...
MOVIES . . . CHASING AMY: "If you loved 'Sleepless in Seattle,' you?ll just hate 'Chasing Amy,''" says TIME's Richard Schickel. As director Kevin Smith proved with a few bucks and some black-and-white film stock in 'Clerks,' he?s an original, a deadpan, dead-on observer of the whole Gen-X mess. In 'Chasing Amy,' he has moved up slightly?color film, more than one setting, scenes with actual extras in them. But he?s still a guy making two-shots of people talking about their troubles, working them through on the basis of faulty information and silly suppositions...
Ethan Tucker's column on study hysteria and sleep depravation entitled "Sleepless in Cabot" (Opinion, January 6, 1996) was a terriffic assessment of a popular issue amongst students...