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The Big Chill is a multimedia festival dedicated to transforming the spirit of current times and offering a highly evolved, all-round experience that is completely unique. Committed to the organic, the intimate and, above all, the human, The Big Chill's ethos is a fusion of vision and tradition, flair and expertise, harmony and vitality. Set in the beautiful bowl valley of Eastnor Castle, the festival is all about the cutting-edge of music and performance, art, dance and film, about technology and its relationship with nature, about identifying artists and nurturing their creativity via a synthesis of spirituality and hedonism. It describes itself as a 'celebration of life', oh, and it's very chilled!
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The Big Chill is a 1983 film that tells the story of several University of Michigan college friends who reunite after many years for the funeral of one of their friends who has committed suicide. It stars Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, JoBeth Williams, and Don Galloway.
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A seminal baby boomer angst session, The Big Chill proved enormously popular with audiences who saw their own thirty-something anxieties brought to life with the aid of an impossibly catchy soundtrack. The film eulogized the lost ideals and enthusiasms of the 1960s and pondered what, if anything, had taken their place. The film begins with the funeral of Alex, long considered the best and brightest of the group of friends, whose death and burial symbolize the collective death of a relentlessly mythologized, sentimentalized era. The survivors are left to scratch their heads, smoke some pot, and dance around the kitchen in an effort to figure out what happened, and why. It is a testament to Lawrence Kasdan's strengths as a writer and director that, while the film does dip its toe repeatedly in the collective pool of nostalgia, it tends more towards melancholy reflection than sentimental excess. The friends question what happened to the promise of their youth, but they do so with an eye towards explaining their present state, rather than trying to recreate their past glories.
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--> The Big Chill started life twelve years ago as a monthly Sunday club in the mattress-strewn confines of Islington's Union Chapel. Back then there were eclectic line-ups, brain machines and open access to a new-fangled technology called the internet with an open-minded approach to music and the focus on encouraging people to exercise their right to relax.
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The Big Chill Cafe in New Delhi, India, was named after the movie. The owner, Bob Pelosi, was so influenced by the movie he named his daughter Linda Hunt Pelosi. (Linda Hunt was not in The Big Chill. She was in Silverado.)
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The Big Chill was released in theaters in 1983. It is the story of eight old friends searching for something they lost, and finding that all they needed was each other. Click to watch the trailer from this classic film.
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