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...CHILL; Directed by Lawrence Kasdan Written by Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek...
...shared memory. This is a movie about getting through a weekend without being bored or driven to tears, about bull sessions that become psychodramas, about making do and making love and making breakfast the next morning. Like John Sayles' fine film Return of the Secaucus 7, The Big Chill is a house party of reconciliation...
There is another invisible presence in The Big Chill: that of Film Maker Lawrence Kasdan (Michigan '70). Kasdan came to a kind of shadow prominence writing scripts for George Lucas; if The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi juggle craftiness with kid-innocence, it is partly owing to Kasdan's easy wit and trove of B-movie lore. His debut as a writerdirector, Body Heat, updated the Double Indemnity plot with equal measures of fire and ice. The Big Chill marks another sure step forward for Kasdan. This is a movie...
...Want, Good Lovin', Ain 't Too Proud to Beg and A Natural Woman. Indeed, the entire film is a kind of sock-hop benefit for Approaching Middle Age. This maturing generation never played Taps with such glamour or good humor. Play the music and let the big chill-the knowledge that "we're all alone out there, and we're going out there tomorrow"-melt away in the warmth of the feel-good movie of '83. -By Richard Corliss
DIED. Ross Macdonald, 67, writer of taut, psychologically acute detective novels; of Alzheimer's disease, which he had had for three years; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In such books as The Moving Target, The Gallon Case and The Chill, his sleuth Lew Archer roamed Southern California through false fronts and cracked surfaces to unearth his clients' dark familial sins and secrets that almost always led to murder. Born Kenneth Millar, he adopted his pseudonym after his wife Margaret became a successful mystery novelist. Though his early work echoed Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, his only peers among modern...