The Big Chill

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.

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