![]() ![]() 35mm.Īcademy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. CAST: Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt. ![]() ![]() WRITTEN BY: Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek. This screening will honor her contributions to film. The film was initially turned down by multiple studios, but executive producer Marcia Nasatir, the first female vice-president of a major movie studio, stewarded the film from the page to the screen. Glenn Close was nominated for her Supporting Actress performance, part of an expert ensemble of rising stars, and the soundtrack features a generous helping of 1960s hits with an emphasis on Motown. They find themselves confronting the choices they’ve made in life and whether they’ve lived up to the ideals of the 1960s in writer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s witty comedy-drama, nominated for three Oscars including Best Picture. It would've been great if the entire group had gotten together one more time, but, then again, you can't always get what you want.A group of college friends reunites after the unexpected death of one of their own. theaters a few weeks later, earning over $56 million at the box office and launching the careers of the young cast. "The Big Chill" went on to win the People's Choice Award at the festival and opened in U.S. The film also boasts one of the most popular soundtracks of all time, featuring late '60s and early '70s pop rock songs such as Marvin Gaye's version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," The Temptations' "My Girl" and Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World." And Tilly said pretty much all of these songs were played during these parties - especially when they would play a brand new game called Trivial Pursuit. "We all rented condos on the beach and Friday nights we'd get together and have parties and dancing and food." "It was one of the coziest sets I've been on," Tilly said in an interview with The Star. Meg Tilly, who played Alex's girlfriend Chloe and who at 23 was the youngest member of the mostly thirtysomething cast, has fond memories of shooting "The Big Chill," an experience filled with "a lot of love." The actors had months of rehearsal ("an unknown luxury") before commencing with filming in Beaufort, South Carolina and even spent Christmas together. A longtime funny Hollywood story tells of the up-and-coming actor having all shots of his face being cut from the final version of the film, though he went on to headline later Lawrence Kasdan movies such as "Silverado" (1985) and "Wyatt Earp" (1994). Oh, and Kevin Costner, who (sort of) played Alex Marshall, the friend who committed suicide. A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends. With Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt. All of the film's major players were accounted for except for Jeff Goldblum, who played sex-obsessed People journalist Michael Gold, and William Hurt, who played Vietnam veteran and former radio host Nick Carlton. The Big Chill: Directed by Lawrence Kasdan. "The Big Chill" had its TIFF (or, rather, The Festival of Festivals, as it was called back then) premiere on September 9, 1983, and today cast members Glenn Close, Mary Kay Place, Kevin Kline, Meg Tilly, Tom Berenger and JoBeth Williams gathered at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre for the anniversary screening. On Thursday, the cast of "The Big Chill" are reuniting at the Toronto International Film Festival to celebrate the film's - gulp - 30-year anniversary. "The Big Chill" chronicled the uneasy reunion of a group of baby boomer college buddies who come together 15 years after graduation upon the suicide of one of their friends. The stars of 'The Big Chill' reunite 30 years later ![]()
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