Kasdan attempts to guise this decidedly commercial choice through the proclivities of his characters, but the wager is wafer thin. Unfortunately, Kasdan and Benedek are beholden to nostalgia, churning out characters whose dulled sense of both self and irony is surpassed only by the pandering and indulgent soundtrack, which functions like a mixtape of the most fetishized order. That infatuation largely derives from the film’s corpus of white-bread urbanites, whose engagement with the past is located either through lip-service incarnations of prior selves or favorite music tracks from college, the latter of which haunts the film like a mantra, as if trying to ward off the impending terrors of old age and dead companions. Yet nothing’s as pure in Kasdan’s film as Michael’s disingenuously stated resolution via corporeal conviction, since The Big Chill prides the song, and not the body, as its central object of obsession. We’re never leaving.” The cleansed innocence of the infant body arrives full circle to the stubborn insistence of thirtysomething immortality in Kasdan and Barbara Benedek’s script, which finds a handful of friends reuniting at a “summer house” after a funeral in Beaufort, South Carolina, following a fellow University of Michigan friend’s, named Alex, suicide. The young boy sings Three Dog Night’s “Joy to the World,” a song that returns at the film’s end, once Michael (Jeff Goldblum) says, “We took a secret vote. We were dinning there at the same time the whole cast came in.Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill begins in a bathtub, as Harold (Kevin Kline) washes his infant son. Alan Beaulieu shares, "On New Year's Eve 1972, dinner for the cast of The Big Chill was at Whitehall Plantation Restaurant on Lady's Island.The restaurant was also a favorite of Nick Nolte, during the production of Prince of Tides. ![]() The cast and crew members frequently ate at the Steamer Restaurant, on Ladys Island.Berenger also bought a house and moved to Beaufort after the production of The Big Chill.Tom Berenger married his former wife Lisa Williams, who is from Beaufort, on the lawn of Tidalholm.The director, Lawrence Kasdan, liked The Great Santini so much, he decided to shoot The Big Chill in the same house.Two Beaufort Police Department motorcycles were used in the funeral scenes, a 1971 Harley Davidson and a 1981 Kawasaki Police 1000.The opening funeral scenes were filmed at Sand Hill Baptist Church, which is located at 15480 Pocotaligo Road just west of Varnville. ![]() ![]()
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