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  1. Barbara Benedek (born 1948) is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1983 film The Big Chill, for which she received a Writers Guild of America Award and several award nominations.

  2. Barbara Benedek is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1983 film The Big Chill in collaboration with director Lawrence Kasdan.

  3. Barbara Benedek is known for The Big Chill (1983), Sabrina (1995) and Men Don't Leave (1990). She is married to Peter Benedek.

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  4. Oct 27, 2023 · Kasdan and Barbara Benedek (who had no previous screenwriting credits) began writing “The Big Chill” while Kasdan was working on “Body Heat.” And though it should be unremarkable that he teamed up with a woman screenwriter to write this gender-balanced ensemble drama, for his generation, it is not as commonplace as it should be.

  5. Former psychiatric researcher who began her entertainment career as a sitcom story editor. Benedek scripted her first feature, 1983's "The Big Chill," in collaboration with director Lawrence Kasdan. She has continued to concentrate on ensemble-oriented drama, notably with "Men Don't Leave"...

  6. Aug 4, 2014 · In some measure, The Big Chill is Kasdan’s first ambitious screenplay and, though coauthored with Barbara Benedek, is perhaps the fulfillment of the flame that carried him from being an ad copywriter in Detroit through the scripts of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Continental Divide, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, where he was a ...

  7. Author of scripts for television shows, including I'm a Big Girl Now, 1980-81; Making a Living, 1981; and Laverne and Shirley, 1982. Address: 9560 Wilshire Blvd., Fl. 5, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, U.S.A. Source for information on Benedek, Barbara: Writers Directory 2005 dictionary.

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