Daily Dialogue — March 13, 2015

“I heard it through the grapevine…”

— The Big Chill (1983), written by Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan

The Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Reunion.

Trivia: The characters were based on people Lawrence Kasdan lived with in the Eugene V. Debs co-op in Ann Arbor, MI, while attending the University of Michigan. Co-ops are co-ed housing in which the residents share household duties like cooking. This explains why the characters are so comfortable sharing the house and cooking, and are so attached to the Michigan football game.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A stellar opening sequence, images of the various members of the clan as they react to the news of Alex’s suicide intercut with shots of Alex’s body being prepared for burial, all accompanied by Marvin Gaye singing “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.” A weekend reunion of a different sort.

If you have a good suggestion for this week’s theme, please post in comments.