Beaches
Summary:
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 tryi... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Bette Midler - (CC Bloom)
Barbara Hershey - (Hillary Whitney Essex)
John Heard - (John Pierce)
Spalding Gray - (Dr. Richard Milstein)
Lainie Kazan - (Leona Bloom)
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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... Continue >>
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