Karen (JoBeth Williams) says she is happy but is really bored to tears by the devotion of her husband, Richard (Don Galloway), a stranger to this group, and by the housewife she has become. ![]() He is the owner of a successful shoe-retailing company, and she is a physician. Harold (Kevin Kline) and Sarah (Glenn Close), who have fared better than any of their friends, live an enlightened suburban existence. Recalling the earnest fellow he used to be, he says solemnly, ''At least once each show I try to put in something of value.'' Michael (Jeff Goldblum) wanted to become a novelist and has settled for the jazzy career of a writer for People magazine. Sam (Tom Berenger), a very nice guy and probably a second-rate actor, is the star of a popular television series that embarrasses him. Meg (Mary Kay Place), having once been a dedicated public defender, has abandoned her poor and - she ruefully concedes - often guilty clients to become a successful corporation lawyer. ''The Big Chill'' is a somewhat fancy variation on John Sayles's ''Return of the Secaucus Seven,'' in that these 60's survivors all seem to have climbed higher in the 70's, so that their sense of dreams lost and ideals betrayed is sharper and, possibly, more romantically dramatic. Among other things, it's a reminder that the same people who turn out our megabuck fantasies are often capable of working even more effectively on the small, intimate scale of ''The Big Chill.'' ''The Big Chill,'' which begins its regular commercial engagement at the Paramount and other theaters next Thursday, is an unusually good choice to open this year's festival in that it represents the best of mainstream American film making. showing will be at Alice Tully Hall and the 9 P.M. ![]() The mourning friends are constantly teetering between laughter and tears, which is the mood of this very accomplished, serious comedy, which will be shown tonight at Lincoln Center to start the 21st New York Film Festival. He attempts to be fair to a memory he does not share, but everything he says comes out slightly wrong, as when he talks of the deceased's ''seemingly random series of occupations,'' without then going on to disprove the ''seemingly.'' The first speaker, the church pastor, rather helplessly concedes that he didn't know the man he must bury. The setting is a small Baptist church somewhere in the South. 35mm.Īcademy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.IN the opening sequence of ''The Big Chill,'' Lawrence Kasdan's sweet, sharp, melancholy new comedy, seven friends, who went through the University of Michigan together and are veterans of the activist 1960's, meet at the funeral of one of their comrades, who has inexplicably committed suicide. 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. A group of college friends reunites after the unexpected death of one of their own.
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