A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
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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
Director
Garry Marshall
Screenplay
Mary Agnes Donoghue
Tagline
"Some Friendships Last Forever"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$20,000,000
Revenue
$57,041,866
Production
Touchstone Pictures, All Girl Productions, Silver Screen Partners IV
Wuchak
December 20, 2020
_**Entertaining “Chick flick” with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey**_ Two preadolescent girls meet on the beach and become lifelong friends living on two different coasts. The brassy CC Bloom (Bette Midler) is a performer living in New York City while the classy, but reserved Hillary (Barbara Hershey) lives on the West Coast. Bubbly Mayim Bialik appears as the 11 year-old version of CC in the ...
kevin2019
July 26, 2024
"Beaches" is an earnest and well meaning film throughout that always favours the overbearing and self important Bette Midler at the expense of the much more insipid Barbara Hershey as it endeavours to tackle the notion of a friendship which spans decades and supersedes all other considerations, but such a misplaced and lofty ambition as this is often an almost impossible aspiration to realisticall...
CinemaSerf
December 28, 2024
There's something quite uncanny about the resemblance between the young "CC" (Mayim Mialik) and Bette Midler who plays her adult self in this quite touching story of lifelong friendship. That all starts when this ordinary youngster meets the well-heeled "Hillary" (Marcie Leeds then Barbara Hershey) and despite being from opposite sides of the tracks, they begin to bond. The former has a love of al...
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