The Big Chill
How much love, sex, fun and friendship can a person take?
Never trust anyone over 30 ... except this group of erstwhile buddies and former college radicals. After years apart, friends who've followed divergent paths reunite at the funeral of one of their own. Watch as the top-notch ensemble (William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, JoBeth Williams, Mary Kay Place, Tom Berenger and Jeff Goldblum) reconnects and cavorts to an irresistible soundtrack of 1960s hits.
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BAD!!BAD!!BAD!!! - Zuggernaught
Wow! This film was such a waste of time. It has characters you don't care for, a story that was a crappy soap, and the music was thrown in and filmed like a retarded dance along. The story. if it has one, follows the friends of a guy who commits suicide, for some unknown reason (its never explained), then they coincidentally all agree to stay at the same house over a weekend. Avoid this, unless you want a good laugh!You can't always get what you want - snickerdoodle
What a great movie this was. However, I think that one needs to be in his thirties or forties to really appreciate it (had I watched this in my early twenties my comment would have been: "boring, is anything gonna happen or what??")
As already stated in another review, this was a rare gathering of a great and talented cast, my favourites being William Hurt and Kevin Kline, but really, everyone had a great performance and the chemistry was amazing.
I liked this movie for being serious and light at the same time, this is a mix that is sometimes attempted in movies but unfortunately often turns out rather distasteful. In "The big Chill" this was very well balanced, very well done.
The message that this movie brings across is that usually we cannot have everything in life, we must make compromises and sacrifices along the way, but everybody goes about this differently.
Lastly, but not least: the music.... ah! Just chill.....
(I am already tempted to add that final star to my review).For Thirtysomethings. - cathyottawa
I remember seeing this when I was a teenager, and thinking it was pretty boring, and wondering what the big deal was.
Now that I'm in my 30s, I can appreciate it more, but I still think it's a bit overrated.
You know what it's like when you go home for Christmas, and you meet up with all your old friends, maybe at your old favourite bar, and after a few beers, it's like not a day has passed since the last time you were all together?
Well, this is a whole movie about that feeling - Reconnecting with old friends over a weekend. Only it's at the funeral of one of the friends that committed suicide.
This movie is all about conversation- some of which is good, some of which isn't as clever as they try to make it. It would lend itself well to a stage play, as they don't do much of anything other than talk and talk and talk.
They're all questioning their life choices. Are they on the right path? Did they do the right thing? Is this all life has to offer? It gets a bit tiresome, especially since they all seem to be wealthy, and have pretty good lives.
Meg Tilly was the standout for me in this film, playing the hippy dippy girlfriend of the guy that killed himself.
This is one of the first movies that really used music to help tell the story, and the soundtrack was a big deal in the 80s - probably one of the first soundtracks not from a musical that sold really well.
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BAD!!BAD!!BAD!!! - Zuggernaught
Wow! This film was such a waste of time. It has characters you don't care for, a story that was a crappy soap, and the music was thrown in and filmed like a retarded dance along. The story. if it has one, follows the friends of a guy who commits suicide, for ...You can't always get what you want - snickerdoodle
What a great movie this was. However, I think that one needs to be in his thirties or forties to really appreciate it (had I watched this in my early twenties my comment would have been: "boring, is anything gonna happen or what??")
As already stated ...For Thirtysomethings. - cathyottawa
I remember seeing this when I was a teenager, and thinking it was pretty boring, and wondering what the big deal was.
Now that I'm in my 30s, I can appreciate it more, but I still think it's a bit overrated.
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