The Big Chill

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Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 big-budget variation on John Sayles's The Return of the Secaucus Seven finds a cluster of old college radicals--who have since gone on to sundry professions and various degrees of materialism--reuniting over the death of a friend. Both playful and thoughtful, the film represents Kasdan (Body Heat) at his most astute. The attractive cast meshes perfectly into a group of characters for which a former closeness is out of synch with their current lives, yet their warmth is enviable and inviting. The script may be a bit too glib, with many one-liners, but it is still a perfectly designed story with telling irony and no little passion. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

A warm look at "The Big Chill".......2007-07-23

In updating my movie collection from tapes to DVD's, I bought "The Big Chill" and loved watching the film all over again, this time with sharper, clearer pictures. I also enjoyed the extra features with the remarks from the actors about making the film. What a picnic it must have been! An amazing bunch of talent! And great music too!

All time best!.......2007-05-14

I first saw this movie when I was in College and fell in love with it. the story line was so great and makes me what to call my friends after watching it. I would recomment it to everyone.

Nostalgic look at friendship.......2007-01-17

I love The Big Chill. The first time I saw it I was just a teen and thought how great it would be to grow up and be so close with such a great group of friends. Now, 20 years later, I am drawn to the movie every so often as a reminder of how great it is to have long-lasting friendships and all the drama that goes along with that (good and bad).

The soundtrack is like a character all its own in this movie, as fully deserving as all other characters for all the air time it gets.

Because of some drug use in the movie, it's doubtful you'll find this played on TV much (without a lot of editing any way). That's one of the reasons I had to buy it--to have the full movie in all its glory.

The Big Chill - No Whimpering, It's Definitely a Bang.......2006-08-15

Very high on my list.

All star cast: Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldbloom, William Hurt, Tom Berenger, JoBeth Williams, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly. Kevin Costner is uncredited for his role...sssh, those in the know...those who don't know, try to find him in the movie.

I just adore this movie. Witty, intelligent, the dialogs are marvelous, and the comments quotable:

"I don't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex."
"Ah, come on. Nothing's more important than sex."
"Oh yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization?"

"It doesn't always happen the first time."
"That's not what they told us in high school."

"Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come."

"He went out with a bang, not a whimper."

Great music selections as well. It's a must see!

enjoyable, but frankly my dear, id rather be in secaucus.......2006-06-04

i managed to miss this: one of those generational impact movies, and never caught up to it until now. it is difficult to remember that all the cliches were NOT cliches when this movie was released, but i was able to watch it and just enjoy the crisp acting by all 8 stars. and of course there IS that soundtrack. still, the movie ripped off "the return of the secaucus 7", and tho i havent seen that in a long time, my guess is id prefer it on a more core level.

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The debut of Sam Peckinpah
i make my opinion about the DVD
Deadly Companions
before the blood
Only for die-hard PECKINPAH fans!

The Deadly Companions
Starring: Maureen O'Hara , Brian Keith , Steve Cochran , Chill Wills , and Strother Martin
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Manufacturer: Westlake Ent. Group
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ASIN: B00023XK70
Release Date: 1961-01-01

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With its small cast, character-driven story, and modest production values, Sam Peckinpah's first feature film seems very like another of his TV Western dramas--just one that happened to get shot in Panavision. The director's favorite TV actor, Brian Keith, plays a surly loner named Yellowleg who ventures into Indian country with a dance-hall girl (Maureen O'Hara), the corpse of her little boy, and a pair of marginally human specimens (Steve Cochran and Chill Wills) who more than justify the title. Everybody has, or seems to have, a guilty or shameful secret: Why does Yellowleg keep his hat on? Was Kit (O'Hara) a widow, or a whore? Action, menace, and ethical dialogues come and go pretty much according to TV rhythms, and the visuals and editing are conventional. But there's enough quirky character work and offbeat mood-making to hint at the singular filmmaker soon to arrive big-time. --Richard T. Jameson

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The debut of Sam Peckinpah.......2007-09-01

Deadly Companions was not only the first film Peckinpah directed but his first entry in the Western genre. This film is certainly more talky and less action packed than his future masterpiece The Wild Bunch but both films deal with hard men who are haunted by their pasts and want some form of redemption whether it be revenge or something more honorable. Yellowleg (Brian Keith) is an ex Union officer who has spent the last five years of his life hunting down the man who scalped him on the battlefield Turk (Chill Wills). By the time he finds him Turk has partnered up with Billy (Steve Cochran) another criminal who is as depraved and violent as he is. Yellowleg recruits the men to help him rob a bank in a neighboring town. What neither of the men know is that Yellowleg has other plans for them and what Yellowleg doesn't know is that he won't be able to realize those plans. Upon entering the new town Yellowleg shoots and kills a young boy whose mother is the town prostitute Kitt (Maureen O Hara). She wants to give her son a proper burial but seeing as how this requires her to drive a coach through dangerous Apache territory no townsfolk are willing to accompany her. Yellowleg offers to ride with her but she wants nothing to do with him. She sets off and later that night Yellowleg and Turk and Billy will try to catch up with her to ride the rest of the way. When they do meet her she pulls a shotgun on them and tells them to leave. Billy does leave after he tries to rape her and Yellowleg beats him and sends him off. In the morning they discover that Turk left also presumably to go rob that bank. Once those two leave the film becomes slow as we watch Yellowleg and Kitt try to forge an uneasy alliance. They share their painful pasts with each other and bond as they fend off Indian attacks. Kitt curses Yellowleg for murdering her son but yet forgives him and even feels some love for him when she discovers that he has just abandoned the past five years of his life tracking down Turk and once he had him he let him go so he could ride along with her. They finally arrive at the graveyard but they are not alone as Turk and Billy have arrived before them and have a score to settle with Yellowleg. The film's final act is the sole action scene but it is an exciting one as it is well choreographed by Peckinpah. A little slow at times it is still well worth seeing the first film that introduces not only subject matter that would become familiar in his later films but introduces one of the best maverick directors Sam Peckinpah.

i make my opinion about the DVD.......2005-11-20

I bought this item and i have to say that i dont't see the movie (was a gift for someone else) but i see the main menu and is very poor, just the movie and the menus scene, nothing else, is true the DVD es very cheap, but i expect a little more for a clasic like this; a good thing is the CASE, is a Beauty Slim Case.
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Compe este item y no tengo nada que decir de la pelicula pues no la evisto (era un regalo), sin embargo puedo dar mi opinion respecto al DVD y les dire que lo encuentro bastante pobre, el menu solo tiene la pelicula y la seleccion de escenas, pero nada mas, ni banda sonora, ni biografia del director, ni sinopsis...nada, es verdad que es barato, pero esperaba algo mas. Algo a favor es la CAJA es una Caja de las delgadas (no habia visto una asi) tipo Slim Case, muy bonita y practica.

((Escribe en tu idioma es mejor para todos))

Deadly Companions.......2005-06-17

Brian Keith play ex-Union soldier referred to as Yellowleg and Maureen O'Hara plays a, er, performer at the Black Garter dance hall in Sam Peckinpah's feature film debut, THE DEADLY COMPANIONS. Keith plays a character with a score to settle with a nasty hombre from his past when he gives O'Hara a grudge of her own to gnaw on when he accidentally shoots and kills her son. Keith, with a brace of prairie thugs in tow (Steve Cochran and Chill Wills) attempts to make amends by escorting the headstrong O'Hara through hostile Apache country after which she'll bury her son.
THE DEADLY COMPANIONS has a lot going for it. Dramatic tension is maintained at a satisfyingly high level - the group is threatened from without by the marauding Apaches and, for a variety of reasons, from within by each other . Keith and O'Hara act and react well with each other. O'Hara always seemed to give her best performance opposite a strong male co-star, and the underrated Keith proves a good match. Chill Wills, who was seldom given much more to do then bray and act mulish plays a shaggy ex-Reb with some blood on the hands of the skeletons in his closet, and who, in the course of the movie, reminds us that he was a pretty accomplished character actor.
Although there are moments of explosive violence, Peckinpah doesn't dwell on them with the obsessively loving eye that would later become his trademark. There are other signs of an unbecoming and uncharacteristic delicacy at work. During Keith's and O'Hara's great emotional showdown scene O'Hara talks about the scars she carries from the men with dirty arms who, for money she let pinch her and kiss her. I don't know how many filters O'Hara's speech had to pass through before it reached the screen, but the final product sounds polite and phony. Okay, the bar is set higher because Peckinpah is the director, but still, the way DEADLY COMPANIONS tiptoes around O'Hara's real occupation is aggravating, especially so in light of the fact that Peckinpah devotes an early scene to a clutch of town hens gossiping maliciously about the unwed O'Hara and her five-year-old-son and how it just ain't fitting blah blah blah and land sakes I reckon even she don't know who the boy's father is blah blah blah. (Strother Martin Alert - The church service takes place in a bar that modestly quits serving drinks during the service. Strother Martin plays the town preacher, foreshadowing a similar bit role he'd play seven years later in Peckinpah's masterpiece, THE WILD BUNCH. Oddly enough, in both films Martin leads the congregation in a stirring rendition of Yes, We'll Gather at the River. Must have liked that one.)
For all of its dated delicacy, DEADLY COMPANIONS was interesting and more than a little enjoyable. Deeply undermining the enjoyment factor is the full screen, pan-and-scan presentation. Unless there was absolutely no wide-screen print fit to print, a truly shameful decision. Even so, a high recommendation for this one.

before the blood.......2002-01-18

While Sam Peckinpah is best known for blood ballets such as The Wild Bunch, and Cross of Iron, it should be known that he was making movies before blood bags were used. Deadly Companions marked his feature debut and while it doesn't stand up to his best films(Wild Bunch, Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia,and Ride the High Country) its a nice start to a long and brilliant career. The DVD lacks extras and is standard format, which should be noted that a lot of older films were shot with a TV standard 1:33:1 frame. But this movie has been all but extinct except for shotty old video tapes for over a decade.

Only for die-hard PECKINPAH fans!.......2001-12-11

This edition of Deadly Comapnions is a very poor excuse to release his movie for a newer audience. The film itself is a decent western and it is interesting for us that love Sam's films to see his first western. My main concern is the fact that the film is shown in full screen. This shows that even after his death he is still being mistreated by producers and production companies. Most of his film suffer very much from cropping so does this one. I dont mind that it lack any extras but you should at least be able to see it in it's proper ratio. Buy only if you want to see an early Peckinpah film that is real hard to get in these days.

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The debut of Sam Peckinpah
i make my opinion about the DVD
Deadly Companions
before the blood
Only for die-hard PECKINPAH fans!

The Deadly Companions
Starring: Maureen O'Hara , Brian Keith , Steve Cochran , Chill Wills , and Strother Martin
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Manufacturer: St Clair Vision
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0001GH77C
Release Date: 2004-02-10

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The debut of Sam Peckinpah.......2007-09-01

i make my opinion about the DVD.......2005-11-20

Deadly Companions.......2005-06-17

before the blood.......2002-01-18

Only for die-hard PECKINPAH fans!.......2001-12-11

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Life, Death & Mini-Golf
Director: Randy Kent
Manufacturer: Customflix
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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After the suicide of rock star Kent Ramsey, band-mates and old friends are suddenly reunited and forced to deal with the past, the future, and then maybe play a few rounds of golf. With the loss of their lead singer, the remaining members of the band P-Brainz - drummer Nigel (ADAM DONSHIK - Jericho, First Daughter) and bassist Skull (JOEL BRYANT) - must choose to either rebuild or join a rival band. The decision would be easier if not for Kent's widow and band manager, Maggie (LIZ UHL). Their surprise ally is Kent's ex-girlfriend, Cass (ERINN CARTER - WB's "On The Spot", CSI), who has a secret she needs to get out. RAWLING CURTIS is JJ, an ex-member of the band, who quit the group after his divorce from Kent's cousin, Debbie (KRISTEN WIIG - Saturday Night Live). He returns for the funeral only to encounter Debbie's new husband, Phil (ANDY FORREST - The Nine), and to find that his old friends have moved on without him. This awesome ensemble cast also features DEVEN GREEN, RUSS TOWNE, DENA HYSELL, and JEMIL AKMAN. Irreverent, witty and thought provoking, director Randy Kent's LIFE, DEATH & MINI-GOLF is "The Big Chill" for Generation X, backed up with an amazing post-grunge soundtrack by rising pop artist Jared Young. You can visit www.lifedeathandminigolf.com for more details.

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A warm look at "The Big Chill"
All time best!
Nostalgic look at friendship
The Big Chill - No Whimpering, It's Definitely a Bang
enjoyable, but frankly my dear, id rather be in secaucus

The Big Chill [Region 2]
Starring: Tom Berenger , Glenn Close , Jeff Goldblum , William Hurt , and Kevin Kline
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 big-budget variation on John Sayles's The Return of the Seacaucus Seven finds a cluster of old college radicals--who have since gone on to sundry professions and various degrees of materialism--reuniting over the death of a friend. Both playful and thoughtful, the film represents Kasdan (Body Heat) at his most astute. The attractive cast meshes perfectly into a group of characters for which a former closeness is out of synch with their current lives, yet their warmth is enviable and inviting. The script may be a bit too glib, with many one-liners, but it is still a perfectly designed story with telling irony and no little passion. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

A warm look at "The Big Chill".......2007-07-23

All time best!.......2007-05-14

I first saw this movie when I was in College and fell in love with it. the story line was so great and makes me what to call my friends after watching it. I would recomment it to everyone.

Nostalgic look at friendship.......2007-01-17

The Big Chill - No Whimpering, It's Definitely a Bang.......2006-08-15

enjoyable, but frankly my dear, id rather be in secaucus.......2006-06-04

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Big Trees/The Sundowners
Starring: Felix Feist , Robert Preston , Robert Sterling , Jack Elam , and George Templeton
Manufacturer: Bci Eclipse
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0007VY4IQ
Release Date: 2005-02-22

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The debut of Sam Peckinpah
i make my opinion about the DVD
Deadly Companions
before the blood
Only for die-hard PECKINPAH fans!

The Deadly Companions
Starring: Maureen O'Hara , Brian Keith , Steve Cochran , Chill Wills , and Strother Martin
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000054OV4
Release Date: 2000-12-26

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Customer Reviews:

The debut of Sam Peckinpah.......2007-09-01

i make my opinion about the DVD.......2005-11-20

Deadly Companions.......2005-06-17

before the blood.......2002-01-18

Only for die-hard PECKINPAH fans!.......2001-12-11

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Big Trees The Sundowners
Starring: Robert Sterling , Chill Wills , Jack Elam , George Templeton , and Kirk Douglas
Manufacturer: Bci Eclipse
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Release Date: 2005-02-22

Charlie Rose with Alison Gopnik, John Bruer & Kyle Pruett; Lawrence Kasdan (September 20, 1999)

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Charlie Rose with Alison Gopnik, John Bruer & Kyle Pruett; Lawrence Kasdan (September 20, 1999)

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A panel of experts weighs in on the debate over the significance of brain development within the first three years of life. President of the James S. McDonnell Foundation John Bruer, professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley Alison Gopnik, and professor of child psychiatry at Yale University Kyle Pruett all share their opinions and respective books on the subject. Later, director Lawrence Kasdan speaks about his new film, Mumford.

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A warm look at "The Big Chill"
All time best!
Nostalgic look at friendship
The Big Chill - No Whimpering, It's Definitely a Bang
enjoyable, but frankly my dear, id rather be in secaucus

The Big Chill [Region 2]
Starring: Tom Berenger , Glenn Close , Jeff Goldblum , William Hurt , and Kevin Kline
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Customer Reviews:

A warm look at "The Big Chill".......2007-07-23

All time best!.......2007-05-14

I first saw this movie when I was in College and fell in love with it. the story line was so great and makes me what to call my friends after watching it. I would recomment it to everyone.

Nostalgic look at friendship.......2007-01-17

The Big Chill - No Whimpering, It's Definitely a Bang.......2006-08-15

enjoyable, but frankly my dear, id rather be in secaucus.......2006-06-04

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