![]() Bookends: The movie starts with Sam burying his wife and ends with him meeting the woman who will likely be his second.Blind Date: Has a montage of blind dates Sam endures.Big "WHAT?!": Spoken by Jessica's mother when she and Sam ask Jessica where Jonah went and she says, "He's on his way to New York".Sam and Annie then spend the rest of the movie trying to find reasons not to meet. Annie Reed (Ryan), a Baltimore news reporter who's engaged to the pleasant-but-bland Walter (Bill Pullman), happens to tune in to the show and falls in love with Sam. Jonah's idea for helping his father find a new wife involves calling a radio talk show on Christmas Eve and putting Sam on the air. Hanks is Sam Baldwin, a recently-widowed architect from Chicago who's trying to start life anew in Seattle with his eight-year-old son Jonah (Ross Malinger). As director/co-writer Nora Ephron put it, "Our dream was to make a movie about how movies screw up your brain about love and then if we did a good job, we would become one of the movies that screwed up people's brains about love forever." The film stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, in their second screen pairing (preceded by Joe Versus the Volcano and followed by You've Got Mail). Visit my Houses Onscreen page to see other movies I’ve featured, listed A-Z.A 1993 Sleeper Hit * We know: Ba-dum tsshh! which infused a fluffy Romantic Comedy with a degree of Postmodernism. The sweeping original staircase leads to the upper level offering a sitting area, four bedrooms, and four baths.”įor all the photos and information about Tidalholm at 1 Hancock Street in Beaufort, South Carolina, check the listing and Cote de Texas. Grand and welcoming, a wide center hall is flanked by stately dining and living rooms. The agent says: “The home features original flooring, millwork and plaster moldings. It was built in 1853 by Edgar Fripp on the banks of the Beaufort River and served as a Union hospital during the Civil War. It has 3 stories with 7 bedrooms, 8 baths, and 7,381 square feet. The house sits on about 1.5 acres of land, and there’s a private dock with access to the Intracoastal Waterway. This window he was standing in front of (with JoBeth Williams) has a great view of the water: Tom Berenger played Sam Weber, the star of a Magnum, P.I.-type of TV show called J.T. Joni at Cote de Texas wrote a great post about this house that includes this photo of the kitchen in “real life” (below) and how it looked in The Great Santini before it underwent the remodel to look like this here. It wouldn’t take much to update this kitchen 30 years later. ![]() The butcher block countertops and white cabinets are still in style, though. ![]() Today we’d probably see subway tile here: Remember when kitchen backsplash tiles were typically square and often had little decals on them like these? One of the most memorable rooms in the house had to be the kitchen, where they famously danced while cleaning up after dinner to The Temptations song “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.” The master bedroom had an upholstered headboard that looks very current: He had to sleep in a boat bed that looks a little short for him! “I mean, it’s not like she’s going to regain her sight over the weekend.” In this scene he talks to his editor upstairs on the landing, postponing his interview with a blind baton twirler so he can stay at Harold and Sarah’s for the weekend: Jeff Goldblum’s character Michael writes for People magazine. Gotta love those mod pink leather chairs! So very ’80s. This explains why the characters are so comfortable sharing the house, cooking and are so attached to the Michigan football game.” Co-ops are co-ed housing in which the residents share household duties like cooking. Debs co-op in Ann Arbor, MI, while attending the University of Michigan. Kasdan actually wrote the role of Alex for his actor friend Kevin Costner, but all of his scenes were eventually cut.Īccording to Wikipedia, “The characters were based on people Lawrence Kasdan lived with in the Eugene V. Kevin Kline and Glenn Close play Harold and Sarah who own the house where everyone gathers after a fellow college friend named Alex kills himself. The movie’s writer and director Lawrence Kasdan saw this house featured in the movie The Great Santini and liked it so much, he decided to shoot The Big Chill in it. The Antebellum House from “The Big Chill” Movie Let’s take a look back at the movie and the house where it was filmed. ![]() The historic home known as Tidalholm is currently on the market in Beaufort, South Carolina, for $4.5 million. Remember the beautiful Antebellum house where a group of old college friends gathered in the 1983 classic The Big Chill?
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