Wuchak
The Indie blueprint for The Big Chill
Seven former college friends from Boston meet at a cabin-in-the-woods in New Hampshire, along with a couple of others. They talk about where they were, where they are, where theyre going, plus other things, like romances ending or reigniting.
"Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980) is a cabin-in-the-woods drama without any boogeyman focusing on the lives of former radicals in college, all of them around 30 years-old now. Obviously The Big Chill (1983) used this as a template, but theyre both different enough to appreciate.
This one had a way smaller budget ($60,000) and no-name actors with only David Strathairn going on to any notable success, not counting director John Sayles, who plays...