Customer Reviews

Beaches

5 star:		(64)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Bette Midler is wonderful in this movie. Barbara Hershey gives an outstanding performance. I love their friendship and how it goes through the different phases, and yet at the end they are there for one another, to support one another. This movie is definitely a tear-jerker, yet a classic.

Great movie. Enjoyed every minute of it. Makes you want to watch it over and over again. What a great buy. I highly recommend it.

I first saw this movie when I was about 11, and I loved it. I am now 25, and this is still one of my favorite movies. I didn't like the book much, but I'll never get tired of this movie.

I never read the book this movie is based on but we rented Beaches and I thought it was a good movie. It is a tearjerker that is really sad and I don't always like sad movies because sometimes they can be too melodramatic and real downers but I liked this movie and I think Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey gave good acting perfomances and I was also impressed with Mayim Bialik (Blossom) who played Bette Midler's character C.C. when the character was 11 years old. I recommend this movie!

I only recently discovered this movie. Years ago, I watched it through the beach scene and was bored so I never finished it. More recently I watched the whole movie - and wow! This is honestly one of my favorite movies of all time. It is very heart-warming!

it was great, the most greatest movie I saw in 2003 :)

She may not be the greatest singer, but she can act and bring tears to your eyes!!! And even sings halfway decent on Wind Beneath My Wings and on Cole Porter's I've Still Got My Health, too bad her recent Clooney tribute cd couldn't be more like how she sounded on I've Still Got My Heath with jazz trio!!! OH WELL it's a NICe tearjerker film!!!

Laughter, tears and a friendship that lasts thru good times and bad, is definitely my kind of movie!
Bette Midler shines as the sassy CeeCee Bloom and Barbara Hershey radiates the grace and poise of her character Hillary Essex.
I literally laughed and cried, but most of all, let my best friend know how much I loved her because of this movie. Our friendship has never been stronger since. The bonds of "Sisterhood" rule!

I would actually give this film 3 1/2 stars. Bette Middler is just incredible. Bette's timing is perfect. Watch Bette as someone is talking to her in a scene, her facial reactions alone are just hilarious. She is a comedic genius. There are few movies that actually make me LOL, Bette's performance makes me laugh everytime in this film. The child who played Bette was also wonderful...
Barbra Hershey pulls off the other half of the film OK, but it is Bette that makes this movie. Great soundtrack too! I always get teary eyed when Bette is singing "The Glory of Love" at the end of the movie, and waves up in the air to heaven at Hillary.
But why is this a barebones DVD release? This was a huge movie. there are no extras? WHY? Not even a trailer? The DVD gets only 1 star. The movie gets ***1/2. Boo to Touchstone for putting this classic film on such a cheap DVD.

This is the second movie that I have ever cried from (first being "The Man in the Moon"). It shows the value of friendship, using both laughter and pain. I am disappointed, however, that I did not see Barbara Hershey in any other films that displayed such character.