Overview:
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.| Status: | Released (1988-12-21) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 6 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $57,041,866 |
| Screen: | Iris Rainer, Mary Agnes Donoghue |
| Productions: | Touchstone Pictures, All Girl Productions, Silver Screen Partners IV |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 73931: Bette Midler - CC Bloom
- 10767: Barbara Hershey - Hillary Whitney Essex
- 11512: John Heard - John Pierce
- 8978: Spalding Gray - Dr. Richard Milstein
- 53647: Lainie Kazan - Leona Bloom
- 56456: James Read - Michael Essex
- 145615: Grace Johnston - Victoria Essex
Crews
- 1201: Garry Marshall - Director - Directing
- 66086: Mary Agnes Donoghue - Screenplay - Writing
- 73931: Bette Midler - Producer - Production
- 58070: Bonnie Bruckheimer - Producer - Production
- 991669: Margaret South - Producer - Production
- 11099: Dante Spinotti - Director of Photography - Camera
- 1918: Richard Halsey - Editor - Editing
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Reviews
Wuchak
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_**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 Hil ....
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"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 cons ....
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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 B ....
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