As special as the everlasting friendship it celebrates, this Special Edition DVD lets you relive BEACHES and all its touching and funny moments, and includes outstanding never-before-seen bonus materials. When the irrepressible C.C. Bloom (Bette Midler) and the shy and proper Hillary Whitney (Barbara Hershey) first meet under the boardwalk at the beach, all the 11-year-olds have in common is the need for a best friend. Worlds apart in lifestyle and location, their friendship ebbs and flows through a lifetime of highs and lows, career changes, marriages, jealousy, and more. From the boardwalk in Atlantic City to the beach house on the Pacific, BEACHES will remind you of what being a true friend means.Garry Marshall’s 1988 drama about a 30-year friendship between two women, one wealthy (Barbara Hershey) and the other (Bette Midler) seeking her fortune in show business, is well written (based on the novel by Iris Rainer Dart) and nicely textured in its contrast between the characters’ separate destinies. When Hershey becomes ill with cancer, the film takes a predictably sentimental course, yet Marshall brings out the best in both actresses and catches some very fine drama. The film is a little too long, perhaps, but overall it is a fine experience. –Tom Keogh
March 5, 2010
#1
My wife likes Bette Midler, I do not.
She wanted this movie for Christmas, so I bought it.
She asked me to watch it with her.
I told her if she wanted anymore Bette Midler movies for Christmas, then my Christmas gift would be having someone else watch them with her.
March 5, 2010
#2
Me and my mom rented this movie from our public library looking for a lood chick flick. We got one but it wasn’t good at all.
It follows two girls who meet one the beach one day and they become friends for life. It skips about ten years when there in there early twentys and they are still friends. A little strange but still the same they are still friends. They meet in New York where Midler is a struggling actress. Midler invites the other one to life with her, which she does. It goes on trough love, sadness, death and many things that would make a good movie, but in here it was just too much.
It is over two ours and gets very boring. I found a lot of scenes twored the end that just drag the movie on. It gets VERY boring VERY fast. Midler caries the story on her shoulders and she just plays it her usual happy-go-lucky character she always plays. If you want a good chick flick see it but if you want a RELLY good movie, don’t. It isn’t that good.
March 5, 2010
#3
Even Joan Crawford would have passed on this old-time “weeper.” Do yourself a favor–because no afternoon will ever be rainy enough, and no boyfriend inattentive enough to eat a pound of chocolate and sit through this.
March 5, 2010
#4
Abraham Lincoln’s law partner once wanted to read some maudlin poetry to Abe. Once he was done, Lincoln said “The people who like this sort of thing will find it the sort of thing they like.”
Beaches is fine. It is obviously a chick flick. Bette Midler has some real opportunities to sing. The acting is good. The problem is that the plot is so predictable.
March 5, 2010
#5
This CD disappoints big-time. Instead of a generous representation of Georges Delerue`s beautiful, sensitive background score, we get lots of boring vocal tracks by Midler !! The least the producers could have done is give us a few more tracks of the heart-wrenching music by Maestro Delerue.