'Chance' is a black comedy about how hard it is to find "the one". Mostly told from the point-of-view of a young, sexually aggressive woman, named Chance, whom according to her: "we're all out there looking for true love", which turns out to be a very elusive thing indeed, and Chance is no exception. She's desperately on the prowl for a man, but since she's more mouse than cat, she gets herself into scrape after scrape in her screwball pursuit of love. Surrounded by a bevy of adoring but completely wrong-for-her men (and one dead girl from Manchester, England), Chance has to pick her way through her messy life in order to figure out which guy is "it".
Acting
Benson's fearless, unlikable-likable lead performance.
Writing
Deadpan dialogue that stings with recognition.
Director
Amber Benson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Amber Benson self-financed this after Buffy ended, filming around her Tara death scenes schedule. James Marsters and Andy Hallett were fellow Buffyverse regulars doing solid favors.
This is peak early-2000s indie 'women behaving badly' cinema—think Ghost World meets Bridget Jones on a credit card budget. The dead girlfriend trope here predates similar dark comedy devices by years.
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