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To: Semper Vigilantis
Worst of all time: The Big Chill.

You beat me to it. Cloying, saccharine, self-obsessed baby boomers at their most childish and self-centered.

85 posted on 09/13/2005 11:58:16 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: atomicpossum
Worst of all time: The Big Chill. You beat me to it. Cloying, saccharine

I can't believe it.

The Big Chill should be a favorite among Freepers.

It was about a group of anti-establishment former college friends who, 10 years after graduating from the University of Wisconsin, are forced to come to terms with how vaccuous their lives in college were when faced with reality (such as business decisions, taxes, death, relationships, children, etc)

The film centers around the characters (Kevin Kline, Tom Berringer, Glenn Close, Mary Kay Place, Jeff Goldberg, and others) who get together for a funeral of their best friend from college who apparently committed suicide because he could not find fulfillment outside of being an anti-establishment protester.

Throughout the movie, the characters constantly wax nastalgic about their "great" days hating Nixon, and ne by one they realize how frivolous those days were.

Really, The Big Chill should be must viewing for all college kids and all Freepers, and I can't believe anyone listed it as an "awful" film.

161 posted on 09/13/2005 12:20:48 PM PDT by Edit35
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