Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Sexylocher Masterful Movie

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

grantss OK, but not great, drama. A story that follows the lives of two women, from their meeting as 11- year olds, their resulting friendship, and then the ups and downs of their relationship, careers and personal lives. Decent enough story and reasonably emotional. However, it feels predictable and unoriginal. While emotionally manipulative, it doesn't really offer anything new on the subject of friendship.Also, thanks to Bette Midler's performance, it often veers into comedy space, and over-the-top comedy at that. While Midler is great in these scenes, it does lighten the mood too much.

tracyjmilburn I'm surprised to see this only has a 6.3/10 so far... it's in my top 5 favorite movies of all time. Some guys say it's a "chick flick" but that's silly; this is a tale of friendship, life struggles, love, sorry, and pain. I love the friendship the two little girls had in the movie. Simply outstanding...The soundtrack, of course, is awesome. The acting is superb... The lady that played Hilary was outstanding.It also had some really funny parts, like the part with the dog.The ending is so painful...Definitely a must-see!

Melissa Mendelson In this life, we are fortunate to meet the people that change our lives. Most of the friends that we find seem to fade away over time, but there will always be the ones that would never leave our side. And through all the trials that we face, the dark moments that come, they stay with us, taking us by the hand, and holding us tight, and these are the people that we would never forget. They are our heroes, and the bonds between us would never break but strain under the weight of this world. But they would stay with us until we reach our journey's end, and friendships such as this echo strongly in a beautifully written masterpiece called Beaches.

sddavis63 This is a decent enough exploration of the lifelong friendship between two very different women, CC (Bette Midler) and Hillary (Barbara Hershey.) Meeting as children on a beach in Atlantic City, CC and Hillary are about as different as they can possibly be, but they establish a bond which for many years is basically a pen-pal relationship until they reconnect. By then, CC is a struggling actress, and Hillary has given up her rich lifestyle to become a lawyer for the ACLU. Both change over the years, CC becoming a mega star and Hillary, returning to the rich lifestyle, a frustrated housewife to an adulterous husband. Their connection remains, though, although it goes through many ups and downs over the course of the years.For the first two thirds of the movie I was a bit frustrated with this. There seemed to be little point to it except to portray the friendship, which wasn't all that exciting, the differences between CC and Hillary notwithstanding. The last third of the movie, though, finally demonstrates what the value of their friendship is, and director Garry Marshall manages to use that last third of the movie to lift it out of mediocrity and turn this into a pretty decent, tug at the heartstrings type of film.Others may well disagree on this point, but I found the biggest weakness here was the chemistry between Midler and Hershey. They are both fine actresses, but I just didn't feel the connection between them that I would have expected, given the nature of the friendship they were portraying. They came across to me as actresses playing friends, but somehow the authenticity of the relationship was missing. Kudos, though, to the young Mayim Bialik. She went on to modest success, mostly in TV, but demonstrated brilliant talent here playing the young CC in the early part of the film. This takes a while to really get going, but in the end, it's a moving and sensitive film about the value of friendship. 6/10