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<\/p>\nGreat opening titles, introducing all the characters as a music montage cut with the body of their dead friend being dressed, closing on shot of his stitched-up wrists. It’s a hangout film after that, former classmate\/friends who now all have good jobs and drug habits. Some light resentments and conflicts, some secrets and such, one delightful ending.<\/p>\n
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JoBeth Williams had just starred in Poltergeist<\/em>, her outsider husband is an object of fun. Meg “sister of Jennifer” Tilly (Body Snatchers<\/a><\/em>), also an outsider, had been Dead Alex’s girlfriend so they all feel responsible towards her. Mary Kay Place (between New York, New York<\/a><\/em> and Pecker<\/em>) is a lawyer with bad hair who wants to get pregnant but has no man, so is sizing up her friends (and gets the movie’s best insult-comic line). Kevin Kline is the nice-guy husband of Glenn Close (between Garp<\/em> and The Natural<\/em>) who’d had an affair with Dead Alex. William Hurt, messed up on pills, had already starred in Altered States<\/em> and Body Heat<\/em>. Mustachioed Tom Berenger is a TV celebrity (actually on his way to Major League<\/em> immortality after an oscar-nominated stop in Platoon<\/em>). And reporter Jeff Goldblum would reunite with Kline and their dead friend Kevin Costner in Silverado<\/em>. Lost the same writing oscar as Fanny & Alexander<\/a><\/em>, Kasdan went on to make the terrifically bad Dreamcatcher<\/em>. Wiki says the last ten minutes were meant to be a 1960s flashback with Costner-as-Alex, and it was cut… and I see the blu-ray has ten minutes of deleted scenes… but they’re completely different scenes, no fair. At least Criterion had the good sense to commission an essay<\/a> by Lena Dunham.<\/p>\n Great opening titles, introducing all the characters as a music montage cut with the body of their dead friend being dressed, closing on shot of his stitched-up wrists. It’s a hangout film after that, former classmate\/friends who now all have good jobs and drug habits. Some light resentments and conflicts, some secrets and such, one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,13,1852,2161,1121,969,2266,1099],"class_list":["post-17321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-criterion","tag-glenn-close","tag-jeff-goldblum","tag-kevin-costner","tag-kevin-kline","tag-lawrence-kasdan","tag-william-hurt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17398,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321\/revisions\/17398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"\/journal\/image25\/chill2.jpeg\")
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