Go Fish (1994)

Director:

Rose Troche

Writers:

Rose Troche
Guinevere Turner

Release Date:

July 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

The girl is out there

Plot:

Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely...

Plot Keywords:

Lesbian | Pierced Nipple | Female Nudity | Food As Sex Metaphor | Biphobia

Awards:

4 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

V.S. Brodie	...	Ely
Guinevere Turner	...	Camille 'Max' West
T. Wendy McMillan	...	Kia
Migdalia Melendez	...	Evy
Anastasia Sharp	...	Daria
Mary Garvey	...	Student #1 (jury member)
Jennifer Allen	...	Student #2
Walter Youngblood	...	Student #3
Danielia Falcon	...	Student #4 (jury member)
Art Stone	...	Student #5
Elspeth Kydd	...	Angry Student
Tracy Kimme	...	Student #6 (jury member)
Brooke Webster	...	Mel
Mimi Weddell	...	Mimi
Scout	...	Haircutter
Susan Gregson	...	Girlfriend #1 (jury member)
Carolyn Kotlarsky	...	Girlfriend #2 (jury member)
Joanna Brown	...	Girlfriend #3 (jury member)
Betty Jeannie Pejko	...	Evy's Mother
Alfredo D. Troche	...	Junior (as Afredo Trouch)
JoAnne C. Willis	...	Sam
Jonathan T. Vincent	...	The Boy
Jamika Ajalon	...	Jury Member #1
Michele Cullom	...	Jury Member #2
Marianna	...	Marianna
Shelly Schneider-Bello	...	Bella
Stephanie Boles	...	Alice
Julia LaFleur	...	Andy
Lisa Raymond	...	Dinner Guest #1
Nina von Voss	...	Dinner Guest #2
Dorothea Reichenbacher	...	Della
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Derrick Kardos	...	Voiceover (voice)

Directed by
Rose Troche

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Rose Troche
Guinevere Turner

Produced by
V.S. Brodie	....	associate producer
Tom Kalin	....	executive producer
Rose Troche	....	producer
Guinevere Turner	....	producer
Christine Vachon	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Scott Aldrich
Brendan Dolan
Jennifer Sharpe

Cinematography by
Ann T. Rossetti
Art Stone

Film Editing by
Rose Troche

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Wendy Quinn	....	assistant director

Art Department
Jeffery J. Jenkins	....	paint supervisor

Sound Department
Gillian Chi	....	assistant dialogue editor
Missy Cohen	....	sound editor
Lisa Gillespie	....	boom operator
Lisa Hubbard	....	sound recordist
Elspeth Kydd	....	sound
George A. Lara	....	foley mixer
David Novack	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jacob Ribicoff	....	dialogue editor
Brian Vancho	....	foley artist
Karl Wasserman	....	assistant dialogue editor
Walter Youngblood	....	assistant sound

Visual Effects by
Rose Troche	....	optical effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Joy Castronova	....	gaffer (as Joy Castro-Nova)
Kevin Grubb	....	grip
Jane Jefferies	....	additional camera operator
Tracy Kimme	....	grip
Kelly Krotine	....	assistant camera
Elspeth Kydd	....	additional lighting technician
Rebecca McBride	....	grip
Paul Shabaz	....	grip
Debbie Snead	....	grip
Maida Sussman	....	additional lighting technician
Rose Troche	....	additional camera operator
Sara Varon	....	grip
Joe Vidal	....	assistant camera
Mimi Wadell	....	assistant camera
Joanne Willis	....	grip
Walter Youngblood	....	grip

Editorial Department
Tim Brennan	....	negative cutter
Lisa Hubbard	....	assistant editor
Jesse Weiner	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Mila Drumke	....	composer: song "Someone"

Other crew
Dana Eshghi	....	production assistant
John Pierson	....	producer's representative
Lisa Raymond	....	script supervisor
Guinevere Turner	....	title designer

Production Companies

• Can I Watch
• Islet
• KPVI
• Samuel Goldwyn Company, The

Distributors

• Cinemussy (Spain)
• Evergreen Entertainment (USA) (VHS)
• Hallmark Home Entertainment
• Samuel Goldwyn Company, The

Other Companies

• Sound One  sound mixed at

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexuality and sexual dialogue

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:14 | Australia:M | Italy:VM14 | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Buck Town, Lincoln Square, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

Can I Watch

Movie Connections:

Featured in Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)

Soundtrack:

Someone

A cheesy home movie with artsy pretensions

This indie lesbian love story made a splash at its New York premiere, and the writer/star is a friend of Kevin Smith's, so I was really interested. It was a big disappointment. First of all, it's SO indie that it's like watching a home movie, which gets on my nerves. So indie that the filmmakers obviously used their friends as `actors,' lending an irritating stiffness to the delivery. The `love story' is utterly inexplicable, as two women who have nothing in common become interested in one another apparently for the sole reason that their mutual friends are pushing them together. We never see why these two fall in love, our pretty, hip heroine and her ugly, dour, repressed object of interest. Even the writer/star (Guinevere Turner) can't figure it out, as the scenes of the two getting to know each other have no dialogue - they simply show the two talking while music plays. The rest of the `lesbian drama' is bland and oppressive.

I'm curious as to why Go Fish has so much in common with the excellent comic strip/soap opera Dykes to Watch Out For, including four major characters, one setting, and two major plot points. Alison Bechdel's strip pre-dates this movie, so I wonder…