The Big Chill | Tom Berenger, Glenn Close

The Big Chill | Tom Berenger, Glenn Close | Attack of the Yuppies

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The Big Chill

	The Big Chill Tom Berenger, Glenn Close Sony Pictures, 1999 average customer review:based on 106 reviews view larger image
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Spend some time with a few good friends... as they reunite for the funeral of a college pal. During the weekend that follows these friends compare their 60s ideals with the harsh reality of their lives in the 80s and discover that in a cold world you need your friends to keep you warm. System Requirements:Starring: Kevin Kline William Hurt Glenn Close Tom Berenger Jeff GoldblumMary Kay Place JoBeth Williams Meg Tilly Director: Lawrence Kasdan Copyright: 1983 Columbia/Tristar Produced by Michael Shamberg; written by B. Benedek L. Kasdan; DVD released on 01/26/1999; running time of 105 minutes. Widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio enhanced for 16X9 TVs Closed captioned 56-minute documentary featuring new interviews with the cast and director behind-the-scenes footage and deleted scenesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396026322 Manufacturer No: 02632

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excellent movie

excellent movie. was great when it was new and still is. i watch it over and over.

Attack of the Yuppies

I saw "The Big Chill" for the first time when I was about 16 and considered it to be one of my favourite movies. Watching it again, more than 10 years later, I realize that the reason why I loved this film so much was because of the soundtrack (this was the film that instilled in me a love for "classic" rock and roll, especially The Rolling Stones, a love which still remains with me today). It was most certainly not for the plot or characters.

The plot centres around a group of yuppies who gather for the funeral of a college friend and then spend the weekend reminiscing about "the good old days" (this plot was, in fact, borrowed from "The Return of the Secaucus Seven", which was made three years earlier, but on a much lower budget). None of the characters in the film have a single redeeming feature and to put it bluntly, they are a group of narcissistic yuppies. Still, in a morbid kind of way, they are fascinating to watch. I don't identify with these people, I don't want to be like them, and yet, when they dance around the kitchen to old records, I find that I can't take my eyes off the screen.

After the music, the next best thing about this film is the cast. Just about every actor in this film went on to bigger and better things (even Kevin Costner, who is the corpse that you see in the opening scene).

Overall, the film is worth seeing, if only to say that you have seen what is often considered to be a minor classic, and after you've seen it, go out and buy the soundtrack.

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Essential Viewing

When I first saw Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill I was a seventeen year old high school senior and I'll admit the story did not do a lot for me. Now, some twent-five years later after the idealism of youth fades into a daily grind the movie has much more meaning.

A group of seven friends plus the current girlfriend of the deceased gathers together on the weekend of the funeral of a friend who committed suicide. The friends feel that he had no real reason for what he did and are left searching for answers. In the three days that follow they must reexamine who they are and the choices that led them to this point in their lives.

The film features an incredible script written by Kasdan and Barbara Benedek and fine performances from its ensemble cast. The disc also includes a where are they now featurette and some deleted scenes. The film quality is good for a twenty five year old film even though the picture is a little soft. The sound has been remastered into Dolby 5.1 and comes across as crisp and clean.

This is a film for a more mature audience who understands the twists and turns of fate and of friendship. It is absolutely essential viewing.

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Generation of Swine

This well acted film is a great portrait of sterotypical 60s generation sell-outs who in their youth were a little bit concerned about things besides themselves. But the times, they-are-a-changin'. They "grew-up" and ended up caring only about themsleves and material gain(of coarse) which is what adulthood means to most Americans. They lived through the 60s, their youthful idealism and naivete, on into the 1980s to become yuppies and narcissists. The only truly decent character is already dead at the beginning of the film and his funeral is what brings these old friends together while at the same time being an obvious symbol that, in a way, what was best about them is now dead. This film stands along with a handful of other films as a particularly instructive document of the so-called baby boomer generation and American culture at the late end of the 20th century.

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