MOVIE · 1983

The Big Chill

ComedyDrama105 min

After a friend’s suicide, seven old college classmates reunite for the funeral and end up spending the weekend together, measuring the distance between their 1960s idealism and their lives in the early 1980s. Glenn Close and Tom Berenger are among the ensemble, joined by Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams as the gathering shifts from mourning to remembrance, old jokes, and uneasy self-reckoning. Lawrence Kasdan keeps the focus on group dynamics: friendships that still fit, regrets that haven’t faded, and the shared history that binds everyone together even after years apart.