The Big Chill Turns 40

There’s a special poignance to a film about the passage of time and what it does to us undergoing the same experience as its characters. Whenever a movie comes out about characters and/or filmmakers looking backward, you never really know what the film has to say until it becomes an artifact of the past. Such is the case with “The Big Chill,” released on September 28, 1983, co-written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan.