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Go Fish is a 1994 lesbian-themed independent drama film. Directed and co-written (with her then-girlfriend Guinevere Turner) by Rose Troche, the film tells the story of the interrelationships of a small group of friends. The narrative is broken up by a number of discussions on lesbian issues, dream sequences, commentary that breaks the fourth wall and moments of free verse poetry. Go Fish was part of a wave of LGBT-themed films that appeared in the mid-1990s. Rose Troche was born in 1964, in the midwest into a Puerto Rican family. ...
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Rose Troche was born in 1964, in the midwest into a Puerto Rican family. ...
Guinevere Turner (May 23, 1968) is an American actress and writer. ...
Rose Troche was born in 1964, in the midwest into a Puerto Rican family. ...
Guinevere Turner (May 23, 1968) is an American actress and writer. ...
Guinevere Turner (May 23, 1968) is an American actress and writer. ...
Rose Troche was born in 1964, in the midwest into a Puerto Rican family. ...
The Samuel Goldwyn Company was an independent film company founded by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. ...
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1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ...
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A lesbian is a female who is aesthetically, sexually, or romantically attracted to other females. ...
A drama film is a film that depends mostly on in-depth character development, interaction, and highly emotional themes. ...
Guinevere Turner (May 23, 1968) is an American actress and writer. ...
Rose Troche was born in 1964, in the midwest into a Puerto Rican family. ...
The fourth wall is the imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. ...
Free verse (also at times referred to as vers libre) is a term describing various styles of poetry that are not written using strict meter or rhyme, but that still are recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers can perceive to be...
Plot summary
Max (Turner) is a young lesbian student who's gone ten months without having sex. She and her roommate Kia (McMillan) are in a coffee shop when they run into Ely (Brodie), a hippieish woman with long braided hair, who Max initially dismisses. Max and Ely do end up going to a movie together. After the movie they return to Ely's place and, after some flirtatious conversation, they kiss. 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. Hippies at the Nambassa 1981 Festival New Zealand Hippie, occasionally spelled hippy, is a term commonly used to refer to some of the disaffected youth of the 1960s and early 1970s. ...
Ely decides to cut off all her hair, ending up with a very short butch style. She runs into Max in a bookstore and Max almost doesn't recognize her. Butch and femme are terms often used in the lesbian and gay subcultures to describe a persons approximate adherence to traditional masculine and feminine gender roles respectively, within a same-sex relationship, or to describe an individual generally. ...
Kia's girlfriend Evy (Melendez) returns home. Her ex-boyfriend Junior is there. Evy's mother confronts her, saying that Junior told her that he had spotted Evy at a gay bar. Evy's mother kicks her out and Evy flees to Kia's place and Max invites her to live with them. // While outing often refers to an outdoor excursion, in the late twentieth century, the term acquired an additional meaning, taking someone out of the closet, that is, publicising that someone is secretly homosexual. ...
Ely and her roommate Daria (Sharp) throw a dinner party and, after a spirited game of I Never, Max and Ely reconnect. They make plans to go out again and then begin making out. They have several phone conversations, in the course of which Ely reveals that she's "sort of broken up" with Kate. They get together for a second date but they never make it out of the apartment. Max ends up trimming Ely's fingernails. This turns into foreplay and they have sex. Intercut with the closing credits are shots and short scenes of Max and Ely's burgeoning relationship. I Never, Never Have I Ever, Well, I Never, or I Have Never is a drinking game especially popular with University students. ...
In human sexual behavior, foreplay is a set of intimate psychological and physical acts between two or more people, meant to build up sexual arousal. ...
The issues - Kia teaches a Women's studies class and has her students list off lesbians from history. Mixed in with the serious answers (e.g. Sappho) are humorous examples like Marilyn Quayle, Peppermint Patty and "the entire cast of Roseanne." When a student asks why they're even making the list, Kia replies that throughout lesbian history there's been a lack of evidence about what women's lives were about, and that lesbian lives and relationships barely exist on paper at all. It's by keeping that in mind and understanding the power of history that "we" (presumably meaning lesbians) will want to start to change history.
- Following a movie, Max and Ely (played by a co-writer and associate producer) have something of a "meta-conversation" about the responsibility of queer filmmakers to represent the community.
- Max and Ely talk about the butch/femme dichotomy and gender roles and expectations.
- Daria has sex with a man and on her way home is challenged by a "jury," who question whether a woman who has sex with a man can call herself a lesbian. She contrasts how a gay man who has sex with a woman is characterized as being "bored, drunk [or] lonely" but if a lesbian has sex with a man "her whole life choice becomes suspect."
- On a lighter note, several of the characters debate their favorite term for vagina. Suggestions include "honeypot," "love mound," "girlpatch," "cunt" and "bearded clam."
Womens studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. ...
Ancient Greek bust of Sappho the Eresian. ...
Marilyn Quayle (nee Tucker) (born 1949) is the U.S. wife of Dan Quayle--she served as Second Lady from 1989 to 1993. ...
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IFP/New York is a twenty-five-year-old, not-for-profit membership and advocacy organization serving the independent film community as a source for networking and support while promoting film as a vital and influential public art form. ...
Founded in 1984, the Independent Spirit Awards were originally known as the FINDIE (Friends of Independents) Awards and presented winners with Plexiglas pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. ...
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Trivia - Go Fish took three years to complete because of financial difficulties.
- Rose Troche's telephone was disconnected twice for non-payment during filming.
- Cast and crew shot 18 hours per day on weekends.
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