'80s Roulette: THE BIG CHILL

I have (almost) every single movie released in theaters in the ‘80s in the United States on a hard drive, and once a week, I’m going to hit shuffle and review whatever film comes up first.

Welcome to ‘80s Roulette!

SEPTEMBER 9, 1983

The Big Chill
Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams, Don Galloway, James Gillis, Ken Place, Jonathan Kasdan, Irna Stiltner, Jake Kasdan, Muriel Moore, Meg Kasdan, Patricia Gaul, (Kevin Costner)
cinematography by John Bailey
screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan & Barbara Benedek
produced by Michael Shamberg
directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Rated R
1 hr 45 mins

Seven old friends are brought together again when their eighth friend commits suicide, and they learn just how much they've all changed in the process.

I feel like I survived the ‘60s.

I missed the decade by five months, having been born in May of 1970. Growing up, though, I was soaked in baby boomer pop culture. It was unavoidable, and one of the biggest milestones in the rise of the endless re-examination of each and every second of that decade was Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill.