Dec 4-10, 1983: The Big Chill/Uptown girl

Quantum Week

Music, Tv & Film

2.6 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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On this episode of Quantum Week, it’s December 1983 with movie “The Big Chill” and song “Uptown Girl”. An impressive cast of characters we hate on, a soundtrack that’s too on the nose, but saved by a Billy Joel classic. Plus headlines and stories.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Quantum Week, December 4th through 10th, 1983.
0:18.7	Welcome to Quantum Week. I'm Matt. I'm Chris. Quantum Week is a show in which Chris and I leap into a random week of a random year. We talk about movies and music and headlines and stories and all that shit. Now we are continuing through December 1983. That's right. And we're hitting The Big Chill and Uptown Girl by Billy Joel. Right.
0:42.1	Which is two things that are very emblematic of their time.
0:43.8	You think the movie is emblematic of the time?
0:44.2	Absolutely.
0:44.7	Yeah.
0:46.7	This movie is 1983 in so many ways.
0:47.8	Boomer Breakfast Club.
0:51.4	It's boomer, yes, I call this movie The Ultimate and Boomer Porn.
0:52.8	It is boomer fucking porn.
0:54.6	Want to get right into it?
0:56.2	Yeah, but I do want to just... So we have gotten away from me talking about what this thing is fucking about, but it's
1:00.4	about a group of college, um, college friends.
1:04.5	15 years later, they get together because one of their friends committed suicide and they
1:08.1	stay the weekend together.
1:09.3	There you go.
1:09.8	Right.
1:10.5	Um, so this movie's known for a couple of things.
1:12.5	It's known for its, it's big cast.
1:14.7	Yeah.
1:15.1	Oh yeah.
1:15.3	Great cast.
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