Total chick flick alert! There, you've been properly warned, but there's no other way to describe this weekend's hit movie that came out at the end of 1988. I don't think I've ever seen the whole thing through - just bits and pieces. And one time something flew in my eye and made it water during one of the more emotional moments of the movie. It was a critical success for Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey and was directed by Garry Marshall. Yep, you guessed it, it's "Beaches"...
the trailer...
the first three minutes of "Beaches"... ya know, to get you hooked on it so that you have to go rent it to see how it ends!
Beaches
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Garry Marshall
Produced by Bonnie Bruckheimer
Bette Midler
Margaret South
Written by Iris Rainer Dart (Novel)
Mary Agnes Donoghue
Starring Bette Midler
Barbara Hershey
John Heard
James Read
Spalding Gray
Lainie Kazan
Music by Georges Delerue
Cinematography Dante Spinotti
Editing by Richard Halsey
Distributed by Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s) December 21, 1988 (1988-12-21)
Running time 123 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Gross revenue $57,041,866
Of course someone has to die in these type of movies, and it's even more powerful when you can put a Grammy award-winning #1 hit sung by Bette Midler as the backing music for the scene. So, get out your kleenexes and listen to Bette belt out "It must have been cold there in my shadow..." with "Wind Beneath My Wings"...
"Wind Beneath My Wings"
Single by Bette Midler
from the album Beaches
Released June 1, 1989
Format CD single, cassette single
Genre Pop
Length 4:18 (Edit)
4:54 (Album Version)
Label Atlantic
Writer(s) Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar
Certification Gold (U.S.)
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1
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