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  • This song was played at my father's funeral. He liked this part so much that he told my mother that when he died he wanted this played at his funeral and my mom made sure it happened.

  • A little Big Chill trivia... it's Kevin Costner in the coffin. He was slated to play Alex, but was cut.

  • at 5:14....Richard/Dick needs to shut up.

  • Thanks juancosaco for posting this. I grew up with this movie and this song...listening advice: on album, in a car or earphones. You don't really hear the full orchestral-tone value unless you do it that way.

  • Beaufort, South Carolina...I was stationed there...just a year after this movie came out. Drove over that bridge countless times. I remember the smell of the salt marsh and the look of the place. Being from Colorado, this was an alien landscape. I love this movie. The music, the story, the acting and the location. One of my favorites, always.

  • @yekdeli You Bet, I drive to Beaufort as much as possible...live in Atlanta....I have played this movie every year since the 80's,,,Just buried my Dad in the military cemetery in Beaufort..last January 2011. went to see the house in the Big Chill...it looks like the movie...beautiful

  • 3 people get what they want...

  • "fuck 'em if they can't take a joke..."

  • I see this as a feel good movie mostly due to the classically great music!

  • this movie is 9999 dollers on amazon.com 

  • to Tom Berenger "and you're an actor ?"

    Jeff Goldblum snorts.

    I wonder if that was in the script =P

  • I think I saw saw this movie two or three times over a weekend when it was in theaters. I'm not exactly sure what was so compelling about it. It was more than just the great sound track, there was something in the way these characters connected and cared for each other. As a kid who was contemplating heading off to college I was intrigued and excited to think I too might bond with college friends as the folks in the Big Chill had.

  • A classic!!

  • Great , great movie; great, great song! I re-watched "The Big Chill" last night and it was just as good as I remembered!

  • Great movie. Feel like watching the movie again. Must pull out the DVD.

  • Song and film in a word "classic".

  • This has been my favorite movie since I saw it at a theatre near Indiana University. I was in high school and visiting my older sister. To me, it's profound in it's portrayal of individuals, their imperfections and their friends who accept and love them despite it. I have never watched a movie more than 3 times except for this one. I never tire of it. Great cast, soundtrack, vibe, set, camera, work, message.

  • This has been my favorite movie since I saw it at a theatre near Indiana University. I was in high school and visiting my older sister. To me, it's profound in it's portrayal of individuals, their imperfections and their friends who accept and love them despite it. I have never watched a movie more than 3 times except for this one. I never tire of it. Great cast, soundtrack, vibe, set, camera, work, message.

  • This has been my favorite movie since I saw it at a theatre near Indiana University. I was in high school and visiting my older sister. To me, it's profound in it's portrayal of individuals, their imperfections and their friends who accept and love them despite it. I have never watched a movie more than 3 times except for this one. I never tire of it. Great cast, soundtrack, vibe, set, camera, work, message.

  • hi kids! There is some profound dialogue in this clip. The song is important symbolisn as well. EVERYTHING is SYMBOLIC. Every letter...Every word...Every Phrase...Every Sentence...etc etc etc...

  • I LOVE THIS FILM!

  • did you know kevin costner played Alex

  • "immediate disqualification because of its involvement with the big chill"

    "oh god your right"

  • @willis636 haha ! I always thought it was a slightly harsh line, but yes a very funny one too

  • Thanks for posting this. I remember the scene from the film all the time and when my father died, this was the signature song i played all the time. The cortege going over the bridge...magnificent shot.

  • This is such a great movie.

  • That's a sweet - connection...:)

  • ottobre 1959...ottobre 2009.

    Il "cielo" ti ha preso troppo presto sorellina..

    Troppo presto...

  • Bellissimo!

    Anna..sorellina mia...Per te.

    Grazie juancosaco.

  • Born in 1964, a 'tweener'. I wonder about the sixties generation how they tried to hold on to the innocence as long as possible after JFK was assassinated. I guess it was the galvanizing event that brought them together, looking to live beyond their parent's self-sacrificing and pursue their dreams with the youthful passion. They achieved much, dominated the cultural landscape beyond the generation, and never relinquished the right for every generation that followed to chose their own path.

  • @mpturcotte Your whole post is a crock of horse s###! Youthful passion, you mean like being high for a whole decade and wasting their lives. They almost took this country down the toilet where they already were. The 60's were nothing but a bunch of slacker losers who didn't practice what they preached. Many of their leaders had ties to the communist party.

  • @vaughnjb you have not a clue if you say "The 60's were nothing but a bunch of slacker losers who didn't practice what they preached. " you know nothing of the civil rights movement. Read a book.

  • @FunnyHaHaFunnyHaHa The civil rights movement was mostly done by Martin Luther King, not the hippy dope smoking, heroin using, no shower taking druggies. I have read plenty of books. You need to come to the realization that it was mostly a bunch of communists trying to "disguise" their political agenda behind the "free love peace movement". Most of those Jesus lovers now are the ones trying to do everything to take God out of our society completely. Hypocrites.

  • @vaughnjb i'm not sure which books you've read but perhaps you should try reading some history book written by actual historians who do research and write about facts. I will not respond to any more of your ignorant comments. goodbye.

  • @FunnyHaHaFunnyHaHa You really need to get a clue. I could go on and on, but the Students for a Democratic Society had spin off groups such as the communist Progressive Labor Party, the Revolutionary Youth Movement which turned in the Weather Underground known for their bombings. A lot more if you want it.

  • watching one of my favorite movies "The Big Chill"

  • WONDERFUL!

  • This movie taught me that suicide is so painful. It leaves a whole that can NEVER be repaired... Then, sadly 12 years later, I too, would experience this pain when my boyfriend (who had just proposed a month & a half earlier) committed suicide himself. I don't think I'll ever get over it.

  • "I feel terrible,"

    "yeah"

    "last time I spoke with Alex, we had a fight, I yelled at him."

    "that's probably why he killed himself."

    God he reminds me of me.

  • oh man! love this scene and this song!

  • Wow - this scene is just as good as I remember it being - haven't seen it in years!

  • if u fast forward from 0:36 she is headbanging XD !!!!!!!

  • i wud like to lick jennifer anistons toe nail

  • sure farting in water is fun but you lose some of its smell, its like a bong

  • when on tour always carry spare 50 amp fuses always, jezzzzz

  • sometimes you dont even get what you need. example i needed a winning lottery tick tonight, but noooooo. and once again jennifer aniston didnt show up with beer, a joint and hot lesbo porn to watch with her naked standing on her head

  • i mean its not just me when lusting after jennifer aniston is it? she is still hot oh im sure gravity is having its way with her if she is naked but hey just stand her on her head huh?

  • this stock market is killing me, im losing my ass right now, but could still handle jennifer aniston sitting on my face oh la la

  • i dont know, maybe i would still do the tilly girl!!! but then who has seen her since this, man if i won some date with her and we ended up at a cabin to do it for charity or something and she didnt look good, id have to cut my rists i guess or jump out the bathroom window, or something like that. but jennifer aniston rocks man she has been around for a long time and is still doable meow!!!!!!

  • now the naked motorcycle rider in vanashing point is a different story alltogether, meow!!!

  • i liked this movie when it first came out and used to watch it once a year around thanksgiving and then i stopped liking it, i dont know maybe deep down i realized the girls in it had gotten old and i no longer wanted to bone them, p.s. glenn close i never wanted to bone!!!

  • I've always wondered if that was Kevin Costner's wrist!

  • Yeah kevin costner was supposed to be alex. I heard they shoot him for the alex scene but it never made to the screen.I guess the producers cut his wrist way before the movie enters the cinema screens .Kevin was a small time actor at that time. He was disposable

  • Well the director was said to have made a real difficult decsion to cut kevin's scenes and said that kevin was very good in them! Kasdan the director said he felt bad and to make it up gave Kevin in what would be his break out role in Silverado!

  • @cheapseats12: Was his scenes put back in in the DVD or Blue Ray versions?

  • @robynsegg As far as I know, no they haven't!

  • @cheapseats12: Well, now they should, since he's a big star!

  • @robynsegg Well he's been a big star since 1987, there's been plenty of time to do it, why not I don't know!

  • great song and good movie

  • In the 80's this movie is about people of my parents age. Saw it in the 80's when I was a kid but didn't dig it. Saw it again in HBO couple of months ago and I was addicted to watch it again. Couldn't seem to get at any video stores..

  • 6:14 - 6:30 . Staggering.

  • The Big Chill was a favorite movie for me at the time. I still love it. Many people don't "get it" - some reviews don't give it credit, but it is very skillful and powerful in its subtlety. For me, being a boomer of that age and seeing it in the 80s = well, it was RIGHT ON. Still is. Thanks.

  • I wasn't born in the baby boomer age, but I love this movie. That's why it's great, it has a universal appeal that everyone can relate too.

  • @ZANTEDESH I recall Roger Ebert complaining that at the end the characters don't really change and all the talk was kind of pointless. Yeah, he certainly didn't "get it."

  • Actually - Alex was played by Kevin Costner = but all of his scenes were cut from the final movie!!!

  • William Hurt's character is a drug dealer who uses a lot of his own product. He's a great actor, but I just can't accept a junkie who is as fit, healthy, and well groomed as this guy.

  • @Bangwhistle

    That's because you're unwilling to suspend disbelief; an essential part of watching and enjoying, most fiction, however closely it may try to imitate life.

    "Sometimes, you just have to let art flow over you."

  • @Bangwhistle

    You can do a lot of drugs and heavy boozing and still look pretty fit when you're in your early 40s like the William Hurt character in this film. I think you start to see the wear and tear in your 50s. Remember that scene where Hurt jogs with Kevin Kline. He probably sweats out a lot of the drugs.

  • Totally the best!

  • I'm a child of the 80's but I freely concede that the music of the 60's had more soul than most of the stuff since.

  • credo sia uno dei più bei film della storia; dedicato a tutti quelli che credono nell'amicizia vera...perduta...ritrovata...q­uella che ti fa andare avanti quando sei rimasto solo....

  • "Immediate disqualification because of its association with the Big Chill."

    Good stuff, though.

  • as great as this scene is and as great as the song is, the sheer involvment of the song with this movie immediately strikes it off a list of songs to be played at my funeral...

  • This is why I am a Funeral Director/Embalmer~

  • My girlfriend killed herself in 1986. This is my favorite movie....so real.

  • Sorry to hear that reggaeky. Must have been a difficult time.

  • @reggaeky: My boyfriend killed himself in 1995. I know how you feel & I am so sorry for your loss. I know in my heart that they MUST be at peace by now. They have to be... right? When Glen Close cries in the shower, it reminded me so much of myself. It's a pain that you try so hard to wash away but you never truly feel "clean"... you know what I mean? PS; I added you! Take care. {{{{^_^}}}}

  • I want this to be played at my funeral...

  • I want 'Highway to Hell' played at mine.

    LOL!

    I think my friends and family would bust out laughing and that would make it all worth it.

  • "that's probably why he killed himself" lol

  • "and what where you fighting about"

    "I told him he was wasting his life " brilliant.

  • ....and you're an actor??? Great!

  • but if you try sometimes

  • @ 5:54 Probably the best non-speaking scene in the film (imho).

  • Absolutely.

  • i completely agree

  • I didn't even go to college then....but it always affects me....College friends are always the best.

  • The shots of the headlights... Funerals suck.

  • A great funeral scene!

  • I hate Music Appreciation

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  • JoBeth Williams was so fuckable, and still is I'm sure. I'd give her a Poltergiest she'd never forget. I'm sure most of you already know this, but the dead guy that they're dressing at the beginning is Kevin Costner. It was like his first role, it's kinda funny becuz you never see his face.

  • I knew that it was Costner who died. I've read that they did a whole flashback scene in the old days at Thanksgiving when all of them were together. I hope the 25th Anniversary DVD will include those scenes. I'd pay a ton of money for that.

  • There were shots of him in a bathtub, with his wrists cut

  • you can't always get what you want

  • I used to intern as a therapist for youth in a residential treatment facility. I would quote that song to them all the time. "You cant always get what you want but sometimes you just might find that you get what you need."

  • I'm going to have this played at my funeral.

  • One of the best damn Films!

  • le fiml de mes vingt ans....Terrible....terrific

  • J'ai vu ce film quand j'avais 19 ans...à l'université de michigan, comme les personages dans le film...

  • I love this movie and the song. Every time I watch this scene I cry and smile. Thanks for sharing!

  • Thank you so much for posting this. I just returned from my Mom's funeral today and was thinking of this sequence the whole time. I remember after she saw this movie she played this song over and over (was surprised she didn't request it for today). I was too young to really get this movie, and the beauty of these scenes then, but I really appreciate this now. Thanks again!

  • @Leahlupita Sorry for your loss.

  • awesome tune ,awesome movie

  • JoBeth Williams....uh, I mean...just...uh...awesome.

  • Evergreen..absolutely!!! Andrea

  • absolutely classic - fucking absolutely classic

  • This movie is beautiful as it is wise,

    I laugh & cry when I see this movie,

    Nice vid and thanks, we all need more

    of thee good movies..They are not making

    them this good. Hence netflix:} Hope, Peace & Happiness, Me

  • This movie was so well done, that I always think of funerals when I hear this song.

  • I can't separate this song from this movie...

  • Such a classic...I love it.

  • i love jeff goldblum's grin when the song comes on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • One of the greatest movie scenes of all time!!

  • GOD i LOVE this...ty

  • best fuckin' movie, i swear to gooood

  • as do all other movies. excpet i want to be able to do it with working junk!

  • Tempted to cry everytime I hear the song and/ or movie.

    Great Post!

    JM

  • BEST MOVIE EVER!!!

  • THIS MOVIE IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME

  • I almost start to cry when I see this scene

  • i really really really love this movie it is very cool

  • Incredibly powerful scene! Totally confirmed my love of The Stones when I first saw this.

  • i love Tom Berenger

  • Such a great film!

  • Ha ha ha! Dead Kevin Costner! Great!

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