Beaches

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PG13,2hrs 3min

Genres:

Drama,Comedy

Release:

1988

Distributor:

Walt Disney Video

Starring:

Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard ... More

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Iris Rainer Dart, Beaches traces the 30-year oil-and-water friendship between free-spirited Bronx Jew CC Bloom (Bette Midler) and uptight San Francisco WASP Hillary Essex (Barbara Hershey). The two meet as children in Atlantic City (played by Mayim Bialik and Marcie Leeds) and are reunited in the 1960s, when CC is a struggling singer and Hillary is trying to break free from her staid upbringing by becoming an activist. The two ladies room together, then fall out when both are ... Full Synopsis

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	Derek Armstrong, AMG Review The type of film for which the term "chick flick" was coined, Beaches dishes out all manner of weepy scenarios, including the erosion by jealousy of the central long-distance friendship and the inevitable onset of debilitating disease. Perhaps because it's such a prototype of its genre, Beaches caught on and became a guilty part of many video collections. Almost all of Beaches is maudlin -- after all, ... Read Review

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	Bette Midler CC Bloom Barbara Hershey Hillary Whitney Essex John Heard John Pierce Spalding Gray Dr. Richard Milstein

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