Its high energy comic crassness earned him a guernsey with the big budget mainstream slacker muck of Mallrats and the scriptwriting for Superman Now . Mallrats flopped, Smith fell out with the studios over Superman and he was left to make the movies he wanted to make. His latest film, Chasing Amy , is a maze of the director's personal obsessions religion, sex, pop culture and, consequently, lends itself to varying perspectives. Chasing Amy 's story is simple enough. Boy meets girl.
Girl likes boy but has a painful past to push through.
Boy gets girl but messes up because he doesn't understand girl's painful past. Pretty simple, archetypal story, really. Trouble is, Alyssa likes girls. But we know Alyssa is holding her cards close to her chest. She ostensibly pursues a platonic friendship with Holden.