| Beaches (Special Edition) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Robert Ball, Mayim Bialik, Frank Campanella, Michael Elias, Diane Frazen
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  149 reviews
Sales Rank: 2078
Format: Subtitled, Color, Special Edition, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 123
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DISD39995D
UPC: 786936281552
EAN: 0786936281552
ASIN: B000765IJK
Theatrical Release Date: December 21, 1988
Release Date: April 26, 2005
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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
Product Description
This is the story of a friendship that gets off to a funny start. And stays that way for thirty years. C.C. Bloom and hillary whitney are as opposite as two people can be. Oddly enough they become best friends. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 08/10/2007 Starring: Bette Midler John Heard Run time: 123 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Garry Marshall
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 Beaches - original soundtrack August 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The CD arrived in a timely manner and was well packaged to survive the trip through the US mail. Wonderful price; excellent audio; amazing movie!
An oldie but still a goodie! August 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have always loved this movie! I bought it so I could now watch it with my own daughter. It made me cry at the end way back when it first came out, and it still made me cry when I watched it again!!! (of course I am one of those sappy people who loves a good tear jerker so if you are too, this is a movie for you!!!!)
More Bette Midler Songs, Please July 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In Atlantic City two eleven-year-old girls meet on the beach. One is very loud and brassy, very show businessy, and the other more sedate and ladylike. The two become instant friends and mug for the camera as they have four pictures in a strip taken by one of those olden days coin-operated machines in an arcade. They tear the strip in two, and each girl keeps two pictures. The movie is bookended by two beaches, one in Atlantic City at the beginning and the other on the Pacific outside of San Francisco at the ending.
Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey play the parts of the two women. Bette becomes a big singing star, the other becomes a lawyer.
There are some good songs in the movie, but I wish Bette Midler had been given a few more really good numbers to sing to show off her talent. She and Hershey do good acting jobs in this movie. It's a real tear-jerker, heartwrenching, targeting the audience's tear ducts, but the film does have an aura of sincerity and authenticity.
It has an interesting and well-constructed plot. The friendship has its ups and downs. Bette is selfish, egotistical, and envious. Her friend is better looking, better behaved, but has marital problems. Bette has marital problems too but because she puts her career first.
A worthwhile movie, sentimental, touching, original and entertaining, but it's more than a chick flick.
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great movie July 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
bought it for my best friend, she loved it.. its the story of us! LOL
 Dvd Beaches July 7, 2008
I'm sorry but I had a problem with the Dvd it stops in the middle of the movie I miss a big part of it.
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