Watching “The Big Chill” (1983), my two reoccurring thoughts were: 1. “My god they must have paid a fourtune for music!” And 2. “Was “Thirtysomething” (1987) based on the “Big Chill”?”
(I was far too young for the yuppie TV show to hold my interest while I was babysitting and stealing fancy potato-chips from the pantry.)
I was right about both- they did pay a fortune for music, and they found a way to turn a delightful story about a suicide, friendship, and realizing your life has turned into something you least expected, into four seasons of “Thirtysomething”.
Now, we wait for the remake.
Meg Tilly = Any (flexible) actress born between 1989 - 1991
It’s a little surprising that Phoebe Cates lost the role as Chloe, the sex crazed teen girlfriend of the dead friend to Ms. Meg Tilly. But, Phoebe moved on to work on such super-channel classics as “Gremlins” (1984) and “Shag” (1989) then she married Kevin Klein. (Whom she met at The Big Chill audition.)
Eighteen years later, Phoebe and Kevin worked together in the ”Anniversary Party” (2001), where Klein plays an actor who is no longer a ‘leading man” and Phoebe has retired from acting to be a mother. ”Anniversary Party” was also Phoebe’s last role. Interesting, no?
Roger Ebert said it best:
“”The Big Chill” is a splendid technical exercise. It has all the right moves. It knows all the right words. Its characters have all the right clothes, expressions, fears, lusts and ambitions. But there’s no payoff and it doesn’t lead anywhere.
I thought at first that was a weakness of the movie. There also is the possibility that it’s the movie’s message.”
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