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Pop culture weekend (Aug. 25): The millennial Big Chill (doesn't exist)

Is it possible to define a generation's experiences anymore? Was it ever?
Tom Berenger, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Mary Kay Place, JoBeth Williams, Glenn Close, and Kevin Kline in The Big Chill.
Everybody looks so dang young in The Big Chill?? (Credit: Columbia Pictures)

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Emily St. James

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