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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Salesrank: 4042
Released: April 26, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
As special as the everlasting friendship it celebrates, this Special Edition DVD lets you relive BEACHES and all its touching and funny moments, and includes outstanding never-before-seen bonus materials. 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 changes, marriages, jealousy, and more. From the boardwalk in Atlantic City to the beach house on the Pacific, BEACHES will remind you of what being a true friend means.
Description of Beaches (Special Edition):
Garry Marshall's 1988 drama about a 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. The film is a little too long, perhaps, but overall it is a fine experience. --Tom Keogh
Beaches (Special Edition) Reviews:
GREAT SOUNDTRACK 
2009-12-20 - THIS IS A GREAT CD. IF YOU LOVED THE MOVIE THEN YOU'LL LOVE THIS CD. HAS ALL THE GREAT SONGS IN IT.
Wonderful, Beautiful, Amazing, Captivating, Extraordinary Brilliant Movie
2009-11-20 - This is my all time favorite movie of all time! The first time I saw this movie I was eleven years old and still at the age of 29 I love it the same. I can laugh, cry, think, smile, frown at certain scenes throughout this movie. If you have not yet seen this movie, what are you waiting for? This is definitely a must-see and I highly recommend anyone that loves a good drama, tear-jerker movie to see this one but even with the tears, there is bliss that overcomes it. I love Beaches, and so will you!!!
One Of My All Time Favorites
2009-10-18 - This is one movie that does not age in time. A life long journey with a friend is something most everyone can relate to. Add Bette Midler with her funny antics and a surprising seriousness that is not only surprising but truly emotional. I loved this movie
Peaceful and relaxing movie
2009-07-14 - No doubt about it, Bette Midler is the next best singer to Cher. I've listened to this CD multiple times and it just gets better everytime I hear it. When my grandfather passed away last year, I used "Wind Beneath my Wings" as one of the songs and cried becasue the song is so passionate. I wish Bette would do some more music like she did on this soundtrack. She's a heck of a singer and I've got a few more of her CD's, but this one takes the cake! I even have two ringback tones from this soundtrack on my phone.
Best Friends
2009-06-05 - "Beaches" is a movie women will especially like who understand how special that "best friend" is.
