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The Big Chill
starring: Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline
directed by: Lawrence Kasdan

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767818353
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767818350
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 26, 1999
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 3009
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: September 28, 1983

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Product Description:
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

Amazon.com essential video:
Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 big-budget variation on John Sayles's The Return of the Secaucus Seven finds a cluster of old college radicals--who have since gone on to sundry professions and various degrees of materialism--reuniting over the death of a friend. Both playful and thoughtful, the film represents Kasdan (Body Heat) at his most astute. The attractive cast meshes perfectly into a group of characters for which a former closeness is out of synch with their current lives, yet their warmth is enviable and inviting. The script may be a bit too glib, with many one-liners, but it is still a perfectly designed story with telling irony and no little passion. --Tom Keogh

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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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 ... Read More

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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 ... Read More

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- The Big Chill DVD
I have been trying to find the DVD locally for some time. I was delighted with my purchase and it arrived in record time.

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- 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 ... Read More

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- A film for Baby Boomers -- lots of fun!
Yes, there's a funeral, which is the basis for the background story for this film -- but the dead guy would have been fine with his associates' activities over this "going back" weekend.

The story is essentially this: A gregarious assemblage of Baby Boomers (now mostly successful and semi-rich) come together for a weekend reunion when a friend, (drug-crazed, who never left the 60s), dies. The post-funeral activities range from philosophical meanderings to reefer smoking to carnal intercourse. The corpse's ... Read More

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