by Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
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| Sales Rank: | 1949 (lower is better) |
| Price Used: | $5.76 |
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| Release Date: | 2005-04-26 |
| Label: | Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone |
| UPC: | 786936281552 |
| Binding: | DVD |
| Published By: | Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone |
| ASIN: | B000765IJK |
| Category: | DVD |
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Product Description
Explores the thirty year relationship between two very different women who meet at the beach and become best friends.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 26-APR-2005
Media Type: DVD
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Garry Marshall's 1988 drama about a 30-year friendship between two women, one wealthy (Barbara Hershey) and the other (Bette Midler) seeking her fortune in show business, is well written (based on the novel by Iris Rainer Dart) and nicely textured in its contrast between the characters' separate destinies. When Hershey becomes ill with cancer, the film takes a predictably sentimental course, yet Marshall brings out the best in both actresses and catches some very fine drama. The film is a little too long, perhaps, but overall it is a fine experience. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
More Bette Midler Songs, Please - Reviewed on 2008-07-18
1 customer found this review helpful.
In Atlantic City two eleven-year-old girls meet on the beach. One is very loud and brassy, very show businessy, and the other more sedate and ladylike. The two become instant friends and mug for the camera as they have four pictures in a strip taken by one of those olden days coin-operated machines in an arcade. They tear the strip in two, and each girl keeps two pictures. The movie is bookended by two beaches, one in Atlantic City at the beginning and the other on the Pacific outside of San Francisco at the ending.
Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey play the parts of the two women. Bette becomes a big singing star, the other becomes a lawyer.
There are some good songs in the movie, but I wish Bette Midler had been given a few more really good numbers to sing to show off her talent. She and Hershey do good acting jobs in this movie. It's a real tear-jerker, heartwrenching, targeting the audience's tear ducts, but the film does have an aura of sincerity and authenticity.
It has an interesting and well-constructed plot. The friendship has its ups and downs. Bette is selfish, egotistical, and envious. Her friend is better looking, better behaved, but has marital problems. Bette has marital problems too but because she puts her career first.
A worthwhile movie, sentimental, touching, original and entertaining, but it's more than a chick flick.
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Book Subjects
- Adult Language
- Adult Situations
- Affectionate
- Bittersweet
- Buddy Film
- Cathartic
- Color
- Death of a Friend
- Drama
- Dying Young
- Elegiac
- English
- Faltering Friendships
- Feature
- Feature Film-drama
- Love Triangles
- Melodrama
- Movie
- Not For Children
- Poignant
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