

Beaches
Some Friendships Last Forever
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
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6.7/10
291 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $20M
- Box office
- $57M
- Language
- English
- loss of loved one
- female friendship
- class differences
- buddy
- death of mother
- childhood friends
- dying young
- cardiomyopathy
- loving
- dramatic
- intense
- adoring
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)PG-1321 Dec 1988
- TheatricalPG-1313 Jan 1989
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1526 May 1989
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG20 Apr 1989
BrazilBR
- TV14Mega Dist. mj.gov.br4 Oct 1999
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG26 May 1989
ItalyIT
- Theatrical28 Apr 1989
JapanJP
- TheatricalPG1215 Sept 1989
New ZealandNZ
- TheatricalPG24 Jan 1989
- Digital / OTTPG27 Feb 2015
SpainES
- Theatrical1221 Dec 1988
SwedenSE
- TheatricalBtl21 Apr 1989
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Beaches was released on 21 December 1988.
Audience reviews
3- W6/10
Wuchak
12/20/2020
_**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 (Barbara Hershey) lives on the West Coast. Bubbly Mayim Bialik appears as the 11 year-old version of CC in the opening act while li…
- K6/10
kevin2019
7/26/2024
"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 such a misplaced and lofty ambition as this is often an almost impossible aspiration to realistically achieve during a t…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
12/28/2024
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) and despite being from opposite sides of the tracks, they begin to bond. The former has a love of all things showbiz but…
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