"The Big Chill and the quarter-life crisis film. The Big Chill is a classic 1980s comedy-drama about a group of seven college friends, now in their thirties, who reunite for a weekend after the suicide of their idealistic friend, Alex, leading them to confront their faded sixties idealism, changed lives, and the "cooling off" of their youthful passions while rediscovering their bonds. The film explores themes of friendship, lost ambition, mid-life questions, and the shift from sixties counterculture to eighties yuppie life, set to an iconic Motown soundtrack."