I love Bette Midler. I just do. But I feel some of her films haven't been up to the calibre she is capable of. Beaches is NOT one of these films.
A beautifully sappy film about two friends from opposite sides of the tracks - as children, they befriend each other on the beaches of Atlantic City where a young Cee-Cee (Midler) is a hopeful child-star-wannabe. We see their lives as they grow up and apart from each other, only to see that the true friendship has never gone from their lives, no matter how burdensome their relationship has become.
Barbara Hershey is wonderful as the friend from the right side of the tracks, and Mayim Bialik is eerily yet perfectly cast as a young Midler. Lainie Kazan is fantastic (as always) as Midler's stage-mother Leona.
Get your tissues out, but also get ready to laugh through this beautifully written, comical and tragic story about true friendships.
A beautifully sappy film about two friends from opposite sides of the tracks - as children, they befriend each other on the beaches of Atlantic City where a young Cee-Cee (Midler) is a hopeful child-star-wannabe. We see their lives as they grow up and apart from each other, only to see that the true friendship has never gone from their lives, no matter how burdensome their relationship has become.
Barbara Hershey is wonderful as the friend from the right side of the tracks, and Mayim Bialik is eerily yet perfectly cast as a young Midler. Lainie Kazan is fantastic (as always) as Midler's stage-mother Leona.
Get your tissues out, but also get ready to laugh through this beautifully written, comical and tragic story about true friendships.