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Name: The Big Chill
Released: 1983-9-30
Cast: Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline

The Big Chill

R
1h 45m
1983

71%

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Nominated for three Academy Awards®, this compassionate story explores the growing pains of seven college housemates from the 1960s who have drifted apart and must now reunite for the funeral of a friend. Having entered adulthood as non-conformists, most now belong to the establishment. Harold (Kevin Kline) has "grown-up" to be a running-shoe magnate; Michael (Jeff Goldblum), a gossip magazine journalist; Sam (Tom Berenger), TV's hottest private eye; and Nick (William Hurt), a drug dealer. Among the women, Sarah (Glenn Close) is a doctor; Meg (Mary Kay Place), a lawyer; and Karen (Jobeth Williams), a wife and mother in the suburbs. Stunned by the death of their peer and sensing their own mortality, each reevaluates his or her own life and tries to reestablish their bond with their old friends.

Director:

Lawrence Kasdan

Producer:

Michael Shamberg

Writer:

Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek

Cast:

Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

71%

Critics Consensus: The Big Chill captures a generation's growing ennui with a terrific cast, a handful of perceptive insights, and one of the decade's best film soundtracks.

Reviews

PopMatters

Jennifer O’Callaghan

The Big Chill‘s blunt suggestion that one may not have lived up to their younger self’s dreams or morals hits a universal nerve to this day.

Uses its ensemble cast superbly to create both a spiky and life affirming comedy drama.

As funny, deeply felt, and expressive of its characters' pain as the film is -- and I've always loved it, since watching it many times on HBO at age 18 -- today it's fascinating for its obtuseness.

A wickedly funny yet compassionate comedy.

It establishes a very interesting union between reality and fiction, between past and present, between errors and their correction. [Full Review in Spanish]

September 4, 2019

FULL REVIEW