Comments: The story of eight old friends searching for something they lost, and finding that all they needed was each other.
Summary: 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"
The Big Chill
(1983)
USA
