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www.exclaim.ca - : This is the quintessential ’80s chick flick with the capacity to reduce women and men to tears for entirely different reasons. Bette Midler is a loud and brassy singer from the Bronx; Barbara Hershey is the repressed rich girl in need of a rescue. They meet as children under the Atlantic City boardwalk, become fast friends and have a frantically eventful friendship as Bette rises and falls as a celebrity and Barbara falls and rises as a lawyer. Having dreaded seeing this film for years (with the combination of Midler and sitcom king Garry Marshall boding very ill), I was surprised to find myself in the critical middle: it’s neither as bad as its male detractors would claim nor as good as its female fan base would insist. more...
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www.timeout.com - : CC and Hillary first meet under the boardwalk in Atlantic City. CC is a vulgar, would-be singer, Hillary a beautiful, poor little rich girl. As they grow up into Midler and Hershey, they keep their relationship alive by writing letters. Then one day Hillary turns up in New York and becomes CC's flatmate. Hillary sleeps with theatre director Heard; CC marries him. Marshall's slick and stylish flick follows the ups and downs of their marriages and careers, but because CC becomes a star, the pace is sabotaged by several Midler numbers. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : Maybe the problem is with the flashbacks. Maybe if the whole story had simply been told from beginning to end, it would have felt less like one of those 1950s tearjerkers with the rain blowing in through the window and getting the curtains all wet. But ''Beaches'' begins on a note of impending doom, and that colors everything else with an undertone of bittersweet poignancy and, believe me, there is only so much bittersweet poignancy I can take in any one movie. more...
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