

He told Alex, making it possible for him to buy property in the area. While out jogging early the next morning, Harold, violating SEC rules, tells Nick that a large corporation is about to buy his small company, which will make him rich and triple the value of the stock. Also present is Chloe, Alex's younger girlfriend of four months. The other friends Sam Weber, a television actor Meg Jones, once a public defender and now a real estate attorney Michael Gold, a journalist for People magazine former talk-radio psychologist Nick Carlton, an impotent Vietnam vet with a drug addiction and Karen Bowen, an unfulfilled writer unhappily married to Richard, a conservative advertising executive. During the visit, everyone stays with Sarah and Harold Cooper. Plot Īfter Alex Marshall commits suicide, his fellow University of Michigan alumni and close friends attend his funeral at the Tidalholm plantation in Beaufort, South Carolina.
The big chill cast series#
Later, it influenced the TV series thirtysomething and A Million Little Things. The Big Chill was adapted for television as the short-lived series Hometown. The music from the motion picture was composed and conducted by Bill Conti. The soundtrack features soul, R&B, and pop-rock music from the 1960s and 1970s, including tracks by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, the Rolling Stones, and Three Dog Night. It was filmed in Beaufort, South Carolina. Kevin Costner was cast as Alex, but all scenes showing his face were cut. The plot focuses on a group of baby boomers who attended the University of Michigan, reuniting after 15 years when their friend Alex dies by suicide. The Big Chill is a 1983 American comedy-drama film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring an ensemble cast consisting of Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams.
