Turner emerged on the scene with the film "Go Fish", which she co-wrote and co-produced with her then-girlfriend, Rose Troche. Turner also starred in the film, portraying a young woman named Max whose friends help her find a new girlfriend, Ely, portrayed by VS Brodie. Director Kevin Smith was a fan of the movie, particularly a scene in it wherein, in an imagined sequence, some of a character's friends chastise her for "selling out" and sleeping with a man, and used it as an inspiration for his own take on a similar theme in his own film "Chasing Amy". Turner has cameos in both "Chasing Amy" and Smith's later film "Dogma". Smith also named Joey Lauren Adams' character in Smith's "Mallrats" after Turner.