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Movie Reviews of Beaches (Special Edition)
Movie Review: A Classic Bette Midler Performance
Summary: 5 Stars
When Bette Midler finds a script that grabs her she dives in head first and it shows in her performance. No director can bring out what she feels more than that first impression she had when she reads the script in deciding whether or not to take the part. Of all the movies she's done there are two that shine through as classics in her pantheon of performances and I would humbly submit that "The Rose" is the first and "Beaches" is the second.
Her participation in picking Mayim Baylik as her 11-year-old younger self was exhausting as Garry Marshall later admitted but Bette is a perfectionist and wanted someone who emulated her as closely as possible when she was that age.
I absolutely hate it when someone slams the classification "chick-flick" on a movie. Does that mean that every action-adventure is supposed to be for men only? I love a good action-adventure as much as any man does so why can't a man admit that sometimes it's okay to see the softer side of a friendship between women? I know plenty of men who enjoy Beaches and Steel Magnolias. It's ridiculous to classify films as "chick-flicks". If anything you can classify Beaches as a "friendship" movie that runs deeply into the human condition.
It could have become deeply maudlin and caused people to flinch with an almost deadly pain but Garry Marshall's direction coupled with the skillful acting of the ensemble cast caused this story to be crafted into a fine woven fabric like antique tapestry that you just have to own. By the time Hillary Whitney is sitting on the deck at the beach waiting to die and the notes of "Wind Beneath My Wings" start playing, if you don't feel tears on your cheek then you aren't human. If this is a chick-flick then why is it that a man directed it so skillfully?
I remember seeing an interview with Bette Midler at one time that she and Garry Marshall were talking about a sequel to Beaches and how CC Bloom coped with raising Hillary's daughter but I guess that never happened. That's a shame because I would have dearly loved to have seen that.
Beaches is a "must-see" movie if you want to let out those built-up emotions over a hard month. Your problems will just melt away when you see it and you'll feel better after a good cry whether you're male or female.
Movie Review: Touched by the Divine Ms.M !
Summary: 5 Stars
Honestly, I would give this movie three stars, but with Bette and Barbara Hershey's heartbreaking performances, it deserves two more stars! I saw this Fabulously Entertaining Tearjerker at the theater, and have rented it at least twice over the years. It's the kind of film that I can embrace myself with emotionally, that's why it's always a touching experience. Anyone who hasn't had enduring friendships and are emotionally "locked up" will not like this movie. If you are a fan of Bette like myself and loved her in For The Boys, The Rose, or Stella, then this is a must see. Barbara Hershey is great, but it's ultimately Bette who dominated the viewers with her sassy and funny performance, and of course the songs in this movie, especially The Wind Beneath My Wings have been heard a million times, but it's still one of her best and most beloved!
It's a perfect vehicle for Bette to showcase her multi-talent as singer and actress delivering a funny and touching performance. It's so enjoyable to watch her whenever she plays a woman in showbiz. The everlasting friendship between Bette and Barbara Hershey's characters are very real representation of many ordinary lives. It takes a lot of unconditional love, respect, trust, and faith to maintain a long distance friendship for decades. No matter what happened in their lives, they know they would still have each other to share their struggles and happiness. Never let time and distance wash away their best intensions and promises.
Throughout this movie, there are many moments of laughters, joy, fabulous singing by Bette, and yes, the reunion to the last days their lives shared together was the the climatic point that will require some tissues to stand by!
Movie Review: Best Friends Forever
Summary: 5 Stars
Good friends are hard to find. Some people go through life finding real friends. There will be friends but there is only one true friend who'll stand by you through thick and thin. Beaches is an example of friendship that started from childhood until the death of one friend.
Hilary and Claire met in Atlantic City when they were children and kept in contact with each other through letters until they were grown. Hilary shows up in New York and stays with Claire. Their relationship is tested when a man enters their lives. He helps Claire with her career but their marriage doesn't last. Claire is too wrapped up in her career to be focused on a real relationship. But Claire doesn't go astray from her dreams unlike Hilary.
Hilary wanted to break from her elite roots but she found herself returning when her father died and she married a lawyer who cheated her out of a marriage with another woman. She was forced to return to law when she got pregnant with her daughter and no husband to support her. Then tragedy strikes.
Bette Midler is a multitalented woman who can display her acting and singing abilities. She evolves into her character who is pretty much a diva. Barbara Hershey is innocent yet strong as her character who displays manners of old wealth.
This is a movie that will make the viewer value the meaning of friendship and why it is important to havae people in their life.
Movie Review: More Bette Midler Songs, Please
Summary: 5 Stars
In Atlantic City two eleven-year-old girls meet on the beach. One is very loud and brassy, very show businessy, and the other more sedate and ladylike. The two become instant friends and mug for the camera as they have four pictures in a strip taken by one of those olden days coin-operated machines in an arcade. They tear the strip in two, and each girl keeps two pictures. The movie is bookended by two beaches, one in Atlantic City at the beginning and the other on the Pacific outside of San Francisco at the ending.
Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey play the parts of the two women. Bette becomes a big singing star, the other becomes a lawyer.
There are some good songs in the movie, but I wish Bette Midler had been given a few more really good numbers to sing to show off her talent. She and Hershey do good acting jobs in this movie. It's a real tear-jerker, heartwrenching, targeting the audience's tear ducts, but the film does have an aura of sincerity and authenticity.
It has an interesting and well-constructed plot. The friendship has its ups and downs. Bette is selfish, egotistical, and envious. Her friend is better looking, better behaved, but has marital problems. Bette has marital problems too but because she puts her career first.
A worthwhile movie, sentimental, touching, original and entertaining, but it's more than a chick flick.
Movie Review: absolutely life changing movie!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a classic movie!!!! I first watched this movie when i was about 17 and was just starting to experience life and it ups and downs!!!!!! Now that I am older, I believe that I have experienced a whole lot more since I was 17..... boyfriend breakups, mum nearly dying in a car accident, friends dying young.... marrying, and having 2 children!!!!! This movie has taught me many leasons!!!! Life is short, we have to live, get rid of those friends who don't treat you right, and hold in your heart those friends who have been there for you through the ups and downs!!! Tell them how much you love them all the time, so when your time on this earth is up, there is no doubt in their hearts just how much they meant to you!!!! My best friend finds it hard to express their feelings to me, but the small gestures they do, and the way they make me smile makes it worth it all the while..... have a great life all....and remember to hold onto the memeries of the ones you love and how they make you smile......