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The Big Chill
1983
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 |
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| Director | Lawrence Kasdan |
| Genres | Comedy |
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The Big Chill
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 about their current lives while reminiscing about the past. In college, the absent and recently deceased Alex was the biggest and brightest star of the bunch but never seemed to get anywhere after being set loose in the real world. The slow acknowledgement that their champion never materialized leads the group in ever widening circles of thought. Discussions of their past lives and current bring about the realization that each has changed so much while remaining remarkably similar. Despite the tragic circumstances, the group disperses with renewed friendships and a newfound appreciation for life.
| Starring | Tom Berenger, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams, Don Galloway, Kevin Costner |
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| Director | Lawrence Kasdan |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 07 Jun 1999 Production year: 1983 |
| Format | DVD |
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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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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
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.
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
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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.
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