Stars: Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray, James Read, Lainie Kazan

Director: Garry Marshall

Summary: A chance meeting of two young girls from totally different backgrounds becomes a friendship that lasts a lifetime. As they lead their own separate lives, they soon realise, and later rely on the strength that their friendship provides.

The story of a deep friendship, lasting from childhood to beyond death, between two very different women--Bette Midler plays C.C. Bloom, a poor but ambitious Jewish girl from the Bronx who goes on to become a famous Broadway star, and Barbara Hershey plays Hillary, an attractive WASP from a wealthy San Francisco family who starts out with all the advantages in life yet manages to find nothing but disappointment. As they lead their separate lives, they come to realise and later rely on the strength that their friendship provides.

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Director Garry Marshall's 1988 drama Beachesabout the 30-year friendship between two women, one wealthy (Barbara Hershey) and the other (Bette Midler) seeking her fortune in show business, is well written (based on the novel by Iris Rainer Dart) and nicely textured in its contrast between the characters' separate destinies. When Hershey becomes ill with cancer, the film takes a predictably sentimental course, yet Marshall brings out the best in both actresses and catches some very fine drama. Beachesis a little too long, perhaps, but overall it is a fine experience. --Tom Keogh

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1988
Release Date:	May 5, 2003
Runtime:	118 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B E D 888701
Keywords:	Beaches, General, Drama
Genre:	Drama