Bette Midler

Barbara Hershey

John Heard

Spalding Gray

Lainie Kazan

James Read

Grace Johnston

Mayim Bialik

Marcie Leeds

Carol Williard

Allan Kent

Phil Leeds

Lynda Goodfriend

Nikki Plant

Michael French

Robert Ball

Frank Campanella

Diane Frazen

Michael Elias

Patrick Richwood

Tracy Reiner

Zachary Weintraub

Nicky Blair

Joshua Levinson

Lori Marshall

Jenifer Lewis

Charlotte Crossley

Julie Bond

Kimberly Morgan

Andrea Paris

Adrienne Parker

Ken Gibbel

Harvey Miller

Hector Elizondo

Whit Hertford

Garry Marshall

Lori Sigrist

Terri Sigrist

Iris Rainer

Mary Agnes Donoghue

Bonnie Bruckheimer

Teri Schwartz

Margaret South

Georges Delerue

Dante Spinotti

Richard Halsey

Paul E. Short

Comedy

Drama

Beaches

Touchstone Pictures

All Girl Productions

Silver Screen Partners IV

United States of America

English

_**Entertaining “Chick flick” with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey**_

Two preadolescent girls meet on the beach and become lifelong friends living on two different coasts. The brassy CC Bloom (Bette Midler) is a performer living in New York City while the classy, but reserved Hillary (Barbara Hershey) lives on the West Coast. Bubbly Mayim Bialik appears as the 11 year-old version of CC in the opening act while likable John Heard has a fairly notable part.

“Beaches” (1988) is an 80’s “chick flick” that throws in drama, realistic comedy, romance, Broadway entertainment and music. It’s also known as a tearjerker, but it didn’t literally move me in that sense, although I’m sure it would some people. It effectively shows the ups and downs of a long-lasting friendship. Fans of Midler or Hershey will no doubt like it more than me.   

The film runs 2 hours, 3 minutes, and was shot California and New York City.

GRADE: B-/C+

"Beaches" is an earnest and well meaning film throughout that always favours the overbearing and self important Bette Midler at the expense of the much more insipid Barbara Hershey as it endeavours to tackle the notion of a friendship which spans decades and supersedes all other considerations, but such a misplaced and lofty ambition as this is often an almost impossible aspiration to realistically achieve during a two hour period so we are consequently rushed through a sketchy succession of highs and lows of two lives with no real sense of any emotional bonds developing or being ruthlessly torn asunder during the passing decades and no opportunity to really get to know about any of the characters and subsequently there is no reason to care about what happens to any of them in an unmemorable and superficial film which is an amazing underachievement on every level.

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