Talk:The Big Chill (film)/Archive 1

What is the movie about?
Seriously, what is it about? Could someone throw in a summary besides "the story of several University of Michigan college friends who gather together again for the funeral of one of their number, after not having seen one another for years"? - Nick15 06:50, 11 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm watching it right now LOL! I was just surfing the channel when I saw somebody wore a Michigan t-shirt on TV. __earth (Talk) 10:28, 8 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Relationships? Like 90% of all drama films? --Jaakonam 12:31, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Movie Connections?
As far as I can tell, this is a remake of John Sayles' Return of the Seacaucus 7. Is there a formal connection?

Trivia
Regarding the Trivia message, at least two items currently on the Trivia list are references to the soundtrack (obviously an important part of the film -- it even has its own article on Wikipedia). Maybe those two items could be removed, or moved into a small section which forwards the user to the separate article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.107.0.103 (talk) 03:17, 2 November 2007 (UTC)


 * The music in the film directly relates to what is happening, or happens on screen. e.g., at the beginning, the friends phone each other with news while I Heard It Through the Grapevine plays. Shortly after, You Can't Always Get What You Want plays, with lyrics 'I saw her today at the reception, with a glass of wine in her hand'. Moments later, we see a reception in which people are drinking wine.
 * The young son of Harold and Sarah taking a bath in the opening scene is played by Jon Kasdan, son of director Lawrence Kasdan.
 * Tom Berenger, as TV actor Sam Weber, interacts with two other members of Lawrence Kasdan's family: wife Meg Kasdan plays an airline attendant on Sam's flight, while son Jacob Kasdan plays a fan seeking Sam's autograph at Alex's wake.
 * Kevin Kline and Jeff Goldblum were also in Silverado, Kasdan's next movie, that also included Kevin Costner, Brian Dennehy, John Cleese, Danny Glover and Linda Hunt.
 * The Big Chill influenced the creation of the television series Thirtysomething.
 * At a free screening at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on April 20, 2006, Lawrence Kasdan denied having seen Return of the Secaucus 7 before working on The Big Chill, though he praised it very highly.
 * The name of the shoe-store chain, "Running Dogs," is another similarity with Return of the Secaucus 7, where one line is: "Coach is a running dog of imperialism, J.T."
 * Actor Tom Berenger married a woman he met while filming this movie in Beaufort, S.C., and still lives there.
 * The soundtrack album, featuring a collection of 1960s pop and Motown classics, was among the best selling albums of the year.
 * This movie is thought to have introduced the phrase "My biological clock is ticking" to popular parlance.
 * Kevin Kline hums a part of the theme from Raiders of the Lost Ark before heading up to the attic to catch the bat. Lawrence Kasdan co-wrote Raiders with Philip Kaufman and George Lucas.
 * The website angryalien.com made a remake of The Big Chill in their 30 second Bunny Theater.
 * Comedy troupe Stella parodied "The Big Chill" in their short entitled "College Reunion"
 * The Big Chill Cafe in New Delhi, India, was named after the movie. The owner, Bob Pelosi, was so influenced by the movie he named his daughter Linda Hunt Pelosi. (Linda Hunt was not in The Big Chill. She was in Silverado.)
 * Kevin Costner has the role of Alex, the dead man, in scenes originally shot as flashbacks, but eventually all of those scenes were cut. Costner is briefly "seen" as the corpse being dressed for the funeral under the main titles. Lawrence Kasdan felt so guilty for cutting Costner from the film that he cast him in Silverado, helping to launch Costner's career.
 * The church where the funeral was held, Sandy Run Baptist Church in Varnville, SC, was destroyed by a fire on November 4, 2007.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)