It’s officially November and the Thanksgiving season is almost upon us, and we’ll be meeting around the table with friends and family.
These gatherings can be just flat out beautiful.
But Thanksgiving can also be the most awkward time of the year.
Sometimes, meeting back up with distant friends and family isn’t that great.
It’s a time of confronting our differences and digging up old dirt, all over a plate of stuffing.
Thankfully, and begrudgingly, some filmmakers have dug up these exact emotions and thrown them on the screen, all for our enjoyment…
and discomfort.
It’s hard to find a movie that does so as well as 1983’s The Big Chill, directed by screenwriting legend Lawrence Kasdan.
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