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The Big Chill

1983

Lawrence Kasdan

William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Tom Berenger, Glenn Close ...

6.8

3,104

Drama Seven members of a close-knit college group of friends are reunited fifteen years later after the eighth commits suicide. The funeral and reception lead to an extended weekend for all as they decide to spend time together pondering the recent events. Amidst a barrage of Motown classics, the members each offer little tidbits about their current lives while reminiscing about the past. In college, the absent and recently deceased Alex was ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"An entertaining look at the 80s embourgeoisement (...) [It] steers skillfully between social satire and sentiment (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"While the actors collectively do a superb job of conveying the nature of longtime friendships among people who rarely see each other anymore, there’s a glibness to the various complications among the ensemble"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It's a good movie. It's well acted, the dialogue is accurately heard and the camera is extremely attentive to details of body language (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Arthur Knight The Hollywood Reporter	"A picture that clearly aspires for more ends up with considerably less (...) For anyone who remembers favorably Lawrence Kasdan's visually exciting, richly textured 'Body Heat', 'The Big Chill' can only be a keen disappointment"	NEG
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"Smartly written (...) [There are] plenty of original insights into both 1960s counterculture and the pretensions of the chattering classes (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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