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- Release date: September 28, 1983 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/
- Director: Lawrence Kasdan http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/
- Writer: Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/
- Editor: Carol Littleton http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/
- Production company: Carson Productions http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/
- Studio: Columbia-Tristar http://www.fast-rewind.com/bigchill.htm
- Running time: 105 min http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/
- MPAA rating: R http://movies.amctv.com/movie/72689/Big-...
- Genre: Drama, Comedy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/
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The Big Chill is a 1983 movie starring Glenn Close and Kevin Kline about reunited old college friends, now middle aged, who explore themes of life, death, love and drugs. The movie was directed by Lawrence Kasdan, and was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Glenn Close), Best Writing and Best Picture.
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Plot Synopsis
The Big Chill is the story of old college friends from the 1960s who reunite in the early 1980s after the suicide of one of their mutual friends. After Alex (Kevin Costner in an off-camera role) slits his wrists for reasons unknown, the old pals Sarah (Glenn Close) and Harold (Kevin Kline), Karen (Jo Beth Williams), Sam (Tom Berenger), Nick (William Hurt), Meg (Mary Kay Place), and Michael (Jeff Goldblum) all meet up for the funeral and spend an unforgettable weekend catching up and waxing nostalgic. During the weekend, they are introduced to Chloe (Meg Tilly), Alex's live-in girlfriend at the time of his death, who is an outsider to the gang of friends. Against the backdrop of Motown music, backyard football, good food, and drugs, the friends wrestle with personal problems, old romantic feelings, and reconciling their old counterculture ways with their new yuppy lives. -
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Cast
- Tom Berenger as Sam Weber
- William Hurt as Nick Carlton
- Kevin Kline as Harold Cooper
- Mary Kay Place as Meg Jones
- Glenn Close as Sarah Cooper
- Jeff Goldblum as Michael Gold
- Meg Tilly as Chloe
- Jo Beth Williams as Karen Bowens
- Don Galloway as Richard Bowens
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Reviews
"An entertaining look at the 80s embourgeoisement of 60s student activists steers skillfully between social satire and sentiment."—Empire Magazinehttp://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=16264"It has all the right moves. It knows all the right words. Its characters have all the right clothes, expressions, fears, lusts and ambitions. But there's no payoff and it doesn't lead anywhere."—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Timeshttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19830930/REVIEWS/309300301/1023
"Strong acting and a string of classic rock and soul tunes make up for a superficial script."—Michael Scheinfeld, TV Guide's Movie Guidehttp://movies.tvguide.com/big-chill/review/106927
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