1988
PG-13
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
2 h 3 m

1988
PG-13
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
2 h 3 m

Summary 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 chan...

Directed By: Garry Marshall

Written By: Iris Rainer, Mary Agnes Donoghue

1988
PG-13
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
2 h 3 m

1988
PG-13
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
2 h 3 m

Beaches

Name: Beaches
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Released: 1988-12-21
Duration: 2 min 3 s
Rating: 46
Cast: Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray, Lainie Kazan

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 11 User Ratings

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Directed By: Garry Marshall

Written By: Iris Rainer, Mary Agnes Donoghue

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Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews

33% Positive
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44% Mixed
8 Reviews

22% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews

33% Positive
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44% Mixed
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22% Negative
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Variety

[An] engaging tearjerker.

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Laughter, tears and Bette Midler: Santa's done a whole lot worse. [23 Dec 1988]

By Jay Scott FULL REVIEW

Newsweek

For the most part, however, Beaches is lean cuisine. It's not quite good enough to ring with any authenticity and not quite tasteless enough to be a glitzy, trashy wallow. But it has one enormous, undeniable asset: Bette Midler. [26 Dec 1988, p.66]

By David Ansen FULL REVIEW

Miami Herald

Beaches is the never-less-than-maudlin soap opera about two childhood pen pals who meet again as adults, enjoy triumphs and endure failures, and wind up watching their story climax via a Fatal Illness straight out of Terms of Endearment. It's what used to be called a "women's picture." [13 Jan 1989, p.C5]

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TV Guide Magazine

This interminable melodrama purports to be a warm, humorous, and moving look at the relationship of two women over the course of 30 years. In reality BEACHES is a trite, maudlin, and terribly superficial effort of the sub-made-for-TV quality, an insult to anyone who has ever befriended another human being.

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The New Yorker

If you admired Bette Midler in The Rose and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, you may want to bash you head against the wall...The director, Garry Marshall, shows no feeling for the material - not even false feeling.

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Boston Globe

Although we're only two weeks into 1989, we've already got a movie so resoundingly awful that it's bound to stand the test of time and emerge as one of the year's worst. [13 Jan 1989, p.48]

By Jay Carr FULL REVIEW

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55% Negative
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Production Company Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV, All Girl Productions

Release Date Dec 21, 1988

Duration 2 h 3 m

Rating PG-13

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Tagline The Friendship You'll Always Remember... In The Film You'll Never Forget

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Awards

Academy Awards, USA

• 1 Nomination

Young Artist Awards

• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

Online Film & Television Association

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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Bette Midler

CC Bloom

Barbara Hershey

Hillary Whitney Essex

John Heard

John Pierce

Spalding Gray

Dr. Richard Milstein

Lainie Kazan

Leona Bloom

James Read

Michael Essex

Grace Johnston

Victoria Essex

Mayim Bialik

CC (age 11)

Marcie Leeds

Hillary (age 11)

Carol Williard

Aunt Vesta

Allan Kent

Mr. Melman

Phil Leeds

Sammy Pinkers

Lynda Goodfriend

Mrs. Myandowski

Nikki Plant

Iris Myandowski

Michael French

Head Waiter

Robert Ball

Harry

Frank Campanella

Doorman

Diane Frazen

Marjorie

Michael Elias

Seedy Bar Patron

Patrick Richwood

T. Kuhn

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