Beaches (1988)

Movie Details

Original Title Beaches

Original Language EN

Budget $20,000,000

Revenue $57,041,866

Status Released

Popularity 1.1

Cast

Bette Midler

CC Bloom

Popularity: 7.4

Barbara Hershey

Hillary Whitney Essex

Popularity: 1.4

John Heard

John Pierce

Popularity: 2.6

Spalding Gray

Dr. Richard Milstein

Popularity: 2.0

Lainie Kazan

Leona Bloom

Popularity: 0.8

James Read

Michael Essex

Popularity: 0.9

Grace Johnston

Victoria Essex

Popularity: 0.4

Mayim Bialik

CC (age 11)

Popularity: 2.9

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Marcie Leeds

Hillary (age 11)

Popularity: 0.2

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Carol Williard

Aunt Vesta

Popularity: 0.4

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Allan Kent

Mr. Melman

Popularity: 0.2

Phil Leeds

Sammy Pinkers

Popularity: 1.3

Key Crew

Director Garry Marshall

Screenplay Mary Agnes Donoghue

Producer Bonnie Bruckheimer, Bette Midler, Margaret South

Executive Producer Teri Schwartz

Editor Richard Halsey

Production

Touchstone Pictures

All Girl Productions

Silver Screen Partners IV

Videos & Trailers

BEACHES (1988) - Official Trailer

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Keywords

loss of loved one female friendship class differences buddy death of mother childhood friends dying young cardiomyopathy loving dramatic intense adoring comforting

Reviews from TMDB

Wuchak 6/10

Dec 20, 2020

_**Entertaining “Chick flick” with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey**_ Two preadolescent girls meet on the beach and become lifelong friends living on two different coasts. The brassy CC Bloom (Bette Midler) is a performer living in New York City while the classy, but reserved Hillary (Barbar ... Read more

kevin2019 6/10

Jul 26, 2024

"Beaches" is an earnest and well meaning film throughout that always favours the overbearing and self important Bette Midler at the expense of the much more insipid Barbara Hershey as it endeavours to tackle the notion of a friendship which spans decades and supersedes all other considerations, but ... Read more

CinemaSerf 7/10

Dec 28, 2024

There's something quite uncanny about the resemblance between the young "CC" (Mayim Mialik) and Bette Midler who plays her adult self in this quite touching story of lifelong friendship. That all starts when this ordinary youngster meets the well-heeled "Hillary" (Marcie Leeds then Barbara Hershey) ... Read more