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Absolutely brilliant

A Masterpiece!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A thousand points of light, and that's what I think of when I reminisce about Beaches, the movie that brought many to tears. The song "Wing beneath my wings" is a classic, and was written in 1982 by Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley. Colleen Hewett, an Australian, recorded it in 1983.I wish there was a sequel. There's a sequel book "I'll be there" but what about the movie adaptation? With so many X-Men, Furious cars, Invincibles or whatever, we need a sequel to usher in the next phase of the USA. Also I would like to see who is cast in a sequel. Will Bette Midler make an appearance or just a cameo?Maybe John Pierce can even make an appearance and cause trouble if you know what I mean.

I love the movie Beaches so much I bought it on Amazon. Hillary dies of cardiomyopathy in the movie and that's what I have. I watch her sitting outside her beach house or sitting in her pajamas and I think about myself. Also, her last scene in the hospital gasping for air reminds me of myself when I was in the hospital. In the movie, Hillary says you know I can't walk that far when C.C. asks her to go for lobsters. Well, I have the same problem. Whoever made this movie knew what they were talking about when they show Hillary's cardiomyopathy. I just love this movie so much because it shows an accurate description of Hillary's illness. I felt bad for her daughter, Victoria also.

Cecilia Bloom,aspiring Shirley Temple,sings "The glory of love" at an audition right at the beginning of "Beaches",minutes after she has met her new friend Hilary.Its a innocent and simple song and she sings it innocently and simply.Cecilia herself is innocent,if a tad precocious. Next time she sings it she has knocked about a bit,the song has altered its tempo,the accompaniment pushier.By the time we have reached the end of the movie it gets the full Gordon Jenkins - type treatment,altered chords,brilliant string and brass arrangement,C.C. Bloom,moulded by the sad events that have led her to where she is,has become a grown - up person with responsibilities,no longer a maverick. The movie could be summed up as "A star is born.Her best friend dies. Cue music for Big Number"if I were cynical,but mostly I went along with it because I enjoy Ms Midler with her "Barbra Streisand without the restraint" schtick. Miss Barbara Hershey is appropriately milquetoast as her WASP friend. Dominated by her father,controlled by her husband,a person less likely to retain the friendship of such a hugely talented but eccentric star would be harder to imagine.And I guess that's the point. At the end of the day there's only room for one big ego in "Beaches",and Ms Midler goes full tilt at everything. She sings beautifully and overacts madly.And it just about balances out.

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