Neil Welch The ambitious singer CC and the rich, but shy Hillary meet as 11-year olds, and embark on a life-long friendship, throughout relationships and splits, career ups and downs, romantic rivalries, financial rollercoasters and, ultimately, a dose of Glamorous Hollywood Fatal Disease.This film is a tearjerker chickflick of some renown, and I have never seen it until now (2016) despite in being released 28 years ago. This has not been deliberate: I may not be part of the target demographic for tearjerker chickflicks, but I am not closed to their appeal. In fact, I was quite looking forward to shedding a tear or two, and the old bottom lip quivered from time to time in anticipation as the rather soapy events of the story unfolded.And then it got to the point where the inevitable took place, and I sat there, resolutely unmoved. Given that the whole point of the movie was, well, you know what the point was, I felt that it was delivered with such tasteful lack of obviousness that it carried little emotional weight. I know that this is not the case for others, but I was quite disappointed not to feel more.Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey are both fine.

helene4991 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.

Melissa Mendelson In this life, we are fortunate to meet the people that change our lives. Most of the friends that we find seem to fade away over time, but there will always be the ones that would never leave our side. And through all the trials that we face, the dark moments that come, they stay with us, taking us by the hand, and holding us tight, and these are the people that we would never forget. They are our heroes, and the bonds between us would never break but strain under the weight of this world. But they would stay with us until we reach our journey's end, and friendships such as this echo strongly in a beautifully written masterpiece called Beaches.

EXodus25X Yes it's a chick flick, yes it's overly sappy, yes it's predictable to the very end, but so what. Bette Midler gives a great performance, there are a couple of very brilliant and fun singing numbers, and at times it is actually touching. The young girl who played Midler as a child was amazing, she had Midler spot on. I only wish that a little more time would have been spent with her on screen. She was more fun and interesting then all the characters in the whole film put together. Despite the predictability I still stayed interested, probably because the story moves at a pretty good pace, doesn't stay stuck on any one scenario. I don't feel like the opening moments were a good idea, they take any surprise or possibility of real drama away and bring nothing at all to the film. I'm not sure why the director chose to take that direction. I have heard people say this is the saddest movie they have ever seen, I'm sorry but it's far from that. Good for what it was intended to be.