Beaches (1988)

More Bette Midler Songs, Please

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

bought it for my best friend, she loved it.. its the story of us! LOL July 10, 2008

Dvd Beaches

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. July 7, 2008

Mother of the groom

I ordered this cd for the song "Baby Mine". It was the mother/son dance song at my son's wedding. It was exactly what I was looking for. The item came exactly as described and shipped quickly. Great seller! July 1, 2008

Top-notch

Maybe it's because I've had this album in possession since I was roughly 8, but I think it's just great. But let it be clear- "Wind Beneath My Wings" is definitely NOT the best track.
Every track is great, and it's so nice to see such diversity in a soundtrack. And by the same woman in each track (minus the last one).
Bette Midler does wonders, really. She goes from '80s ballad, to '80s Boardwalk remake (and actually surpassing the original in my opinion), to blues to a pop song duet in the middle, to a sexual comedy piece, and even manages a very sad Randy Newman piece, called "I Think It's Going To Rain Today". This is my favourite track, as well as the ever-depressing "Baby Mine".
Too much to offer. Wonderful-music-overload.

I don't even like the film all that much! June 27, 2008

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