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Beaches |
My Rating:
(out of 5 stars) |  |
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First Saw:In Theatre |
Saw at/with: With Jessica
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Rating: PG-13
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Year:
1986
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Category: Drama
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Director:
Gary Marshall
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Time:
123 min.
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Writer:
Iris Rainer Dart & Mary Agnes Donoghue
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They only reason this did not get a bomb rating is that there is one good scene. The bath house number with Bette. This is the worst of melodramatic dreck. I was so happy when Barabara's character died. About time already! Just WAY too long and maudlin.
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| Leonard Maltin/Plot synopsis: |
Leonard Maltin Summary for
Beaches (1988)
Page 13 of 27
From Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide.
Bittersweet saga of a thirty-year friendship that begins when two girls--one rich and pampered, the other poor and driven to show-biz success--meet on the beach at Atlantic City. OK as soap opera (not much depth to the characters and their motives, and at least two endings too many) but as a vehicle for Midler it's dynamite, and she even gets to sing. Based on a novel by Iris Rainer Dart; Midler coproduced. Director Marshall features his on-screen ``regulars'' in a variety of cameo roles, including Hector Elizondo as a justice of the peace.
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