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The big chill [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents ; a Carson Productions Group, Ltd. production of a Lawrence Kasdan film ; written by Lawrence Kasdan & Barbara Benedek ; produced by Michael Shamberg ; directed by Lawrence Kasdan.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 02632 | Columbia TriStar Home VideoLanguage: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publisher: [Burbank, California] : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [1998]Edition: 15th anniversary collector's editionDescription: 1 videodisc (approximately 106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9780767818353
  • 0767818350
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Start -- Alex's funeral -- "You can't always get what you want" -- The reception -- Staying the weekend -- "Tell him" -- A familiar scene -- Nick at night -- Bats -- Late-night snack -- Nick, on the air -- "Good lovin'" -- Going to have a baby -- J.T. LANCER -- Pasta dinner -- "Ain't too proud to beg" -- "The weight" -- Sam the sham -- The game -- "Gimme some lovin'" -- Pete the cop -- Interviewing Chloe -- "Bad moon rising" -- Turning Karen down -- "When a man loves a woman" -- "A natural woman" -- "In the midnight hour" -- "I second that emotion".
Production credits:
  • Editor, Carol Littleton ; production designer, Ida Random ; director of photography, John Bailey.
Awards:
  • Writers Guild of America's WGA Award for Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen (Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek)
Cast: Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams.Summary: Seven college housemates from the 1960s who have drifted apart reunite at the funeral of a friend. Having entered adulthood as non-conformists, most now belong to the establishment. Stunned by the death of their peer, sensing their own mortality and the loss of their innocence, each takes the opportunity to reevaluate his or her life and re-establish their bonds.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD DRAMA BIG CHIL Available 33111009979267
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Embraced by the Baby Boomer generation and spawning countless imitators, the sophomore film of writer-director Lawrence Kasdan was a successful comedy-drama with a best selling soundtrack of Motown hits. Kevin Kline and Glenn Close star as Harold and Sarah Cooper, a couple whose marital troubles are put on hold while they host an unhappy reunion of former college pals gathered for the funeral of one of their own, a suicide victim named Alex. As the weekend unfolds, the friends catch up with each other, play the music of their youth, reminisce, smoke marijuana, and pair off with each other in unexpected combinations. Included are Michael (Jeff Goldblum), a smarmy journalist; Sam (Tom Berenger), a TV star; Karen (JoBeth Williams), unhappily married and pining for Sam; Nick (William Hurt), a drug-addicted Vietnam vet; and Meg (Mary Kay Place), a single career woman who wants a child. Joining the group is Alex's bizarre girlfriend Chloe (Meg Tilly), who finds new love with Nick. As they learn to deal with the truth about the loss of idealism in their lives and Alex's sad demise, the friends find their bond still intact, while the marriage of Harold and Sarah is healed in an unusual way that's in sync with the era of their youth. Cut from the release of The Big Chill (1983) was the brief appearance of young actor Kevin Costner as Alex. Kasdan promised Costner a role in his next picture, which turned out to be a star-making part in Silverado (1985). ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

DVD; NTSC, region 1; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby surround.

English, French, or Spanish dialogue; optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams.

Editor, Carol Littleton ; production designer, Ida Random ; director of photography, John Bailey.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983.

Start -- Alex's funeral -- "You can't always get what you want" -- The reception -- Staying the weekend -- "Tell him" -- A familiar scene -- Nick at night -- Bats -- Late-night snack -- Nick, on the air -- "Good lovin'" -- Going to have a baby -- J.T. LANCER -- Pasta dinner -- "Ain't too proud to beg" -- "The weight" -- Sam the sham -- The game -- "Gimme some lovin'" -- Pete the cop -- Interviewing Chloe -- "Bad moon rising" -- Turning Karen down -- "When a man loves a woman" -- "A natural woman" -- "In the midnight hour" -- "I second that emotion".

Seven college housemates from the 1960s who have drifted apart reunite at the funeral of a friend. Having entered adulthood as non-conformists, most now belong to the establishment. Stunned by the death of their peer, sensing their own mortality and the loss of their innocence, each takes the opportunity to reevaluate his or her life and re-establish their bonds.

MPAA rating: R.

Special features include: theatrical trailer, deleted scenes and a retrospective documentary called: The big chill, a reunion / written, directed by Laurent Bouzereau.

The big chill (106 minutes) -- Featurette (30 minutes).

For private home use only.

Writers Guild of America's WGA Award for Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen (Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek)

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