On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 75% of 69 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.4/10. Actors for the film were friends, people spotted around town, or volunteers pulled from open casting calls. Prior to writing the film, the pair had worked on projects for ACT UP Chicago. The script was written collaboratively between Troche and Turner and the film took about three years to finish. Ruby Rich's article "New Queer Cinema" in Sight and Sound and were inspired to contact Christine Vachon for production support. Intercut with the closing credits are shots and short scenes of Max and Ely's burgeoning relationship.
This turns into foreplay and they have sex. They get together for a second date but they never make it out of the apartment. They have several phone conversations, in the course of which Ely reveals that she's "sort of broken up" with Kate. They make plans to go out again and then begin kissing. Evy's mother kicks her out and Evy flees to Kia's place and Max invites her to live with them.Įly and her roommate Daria throw a dinner party and, after a spirited game of I Never, Max and Ely reconnect. Evy's mother confronts her, saying that Junior told her that he had spotted Evy at a gay bar. She runs into Max in a bookstore and Max almost does not recognize her. Suddenly a call comes in from Ely's (unseen on-screen) partner Kate, with whom Ely has been in a long-distance relationship for more than two years, which puts a bit of a damper on things.Įly decides to cut off all her hair, ending up with a very short butch style. After the film they return to Ely's place and, after some flirtatious conversation, they kiss. Max and Ely do end up going to a film together. She and her roommate and college professor Kia are in a coffee shop when they run into Ely, a hippieish woman with long braided hair, whom Max initially dismisses.
Max is a young lesbian college student in Chicago who has gone ten months without having sex. Go Fish proved the marketability of lesbian issues for the film industry. The film was released during Pride Month in June 1994 and eventually grossed $2.4 million. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994, and was the first film to be sold to a distributor, Samuel Goldwyn, during that event for $450,000. The film was a groundbreaking, hip, low-budget comedy that celebrated lesbian culture on all levels, and launched the career of director Troche and Turner. Go Fish is a 1994 American drama film written by Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche and directed by Rose Troche.
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