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The Big Chill

1983 DVD Certificate 15.gif
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  • 60
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Seven members of a close-knit college group of friends are reunited fifteen years later after the eighth commits suicide. The funeral and reception lead to an extended weekend for all as they decide to spend time together pondering the recent events. Amidst a barrage of Motown classics, the members each offer little tidbits .. Read more

Starring Tom Berenger, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline
Director Lawrence Kasdan
Run time 100 mins
Genres Comedy

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  • Critics' reviews (5) of The Big Chill

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    At one time a cult movie among 20-somethings, this chic comedy is now better known as the picture from which Kevin Costner had all his scenes cut. Smartly written by director Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek, the Oscar-nominated script clearly owes a debt to John Sayles's overlooked and infinitely superior reunion drama The Return of the Secaucus Seven. However, there are still plenty of original insights into both 1960s counterculture and the pretensions of the chattering classes. There's a dream cast, although Meg Tilly upstages her more famous co-stars, while the soundtrack is packed with the anthems of an age. It's over-clever, but very slick.

    • Radio Times
  • A funeral reunites a group of friends from the idealistic '60s who have gone their separate ways in the pragmatic '80s.... read more on Time Out

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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    A Classic fun movie

    Just a classic fun movie. Good music, good friends, good feelings. Enough thought provoking topics to have a conversation about but no stress.

      • Shay3 from Maidenhead
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  • 3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Hippies try to grow up, with great soundtrack

    Middle-aged sixties revolutionaries try to come to terms with their changing personas. Strangely believable. If you watch the 'making of' extras you will begin to see how such a naturalism was achieved. Probably mainly appeal to the same generation, unless very broadminded.

      • Hilda from London
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