Beaches (1988)

All Critics (32) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (22) | DVD (20)

The film's oily overdefinition of various class and cultural categories is strident enough to betray a condescending attitude toward the audience.

April 7, 2010 Full Review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Make some popcorn and get out the Kleenex.

January 2, 2011 Full Review

Sarah Wenk

Common Sense Media

Garry Marhsall's unbearabaly schmaltzy and stereotyical medlodrama contrasts a brassy Jewish singer with an elegant WASPy socialite that even actresses like Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey cannot elevate or rescue.

August 10, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Maudlin & weepy with tender performances by Midler and Hershey.

February 20, 2007

Steve Crum

Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers

...it seems obvious that certain audiences will get a whole lot more out of it than others.

May 8, 2005 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

If director Garry Marshall's intent was to up the Kleenex-count rather than the body count, he succeeded.

May 3, 2005 Full Review

Tony Whitt

Now Playing Magazine

there are few horrors as singularly terrifying as this movie

April 27, 2005 Full Review | Comment (1)

Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

A poignant tribute to the joys and tribulations of friendship.

April 22, 2005 Full Review

Betty Jo Tucker

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Every bit as sappy and saccharine as you'd expect

April 20, 2005 Full Review

Joshua Tyler

CinemaBlend.com

...a CD album of the songs might be as entertaining as the movie, and it would cost a lot less. (Special Edition DVD)

April 16, 2005 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

I enjoyed the first forty-five minutes of Beaches. Beyond that, I kept looking at my watch wondering when it was ever going to end.

April 16, 2005 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

• 1. CC Bloom: Hilary you got so fat!
  2. Hillary Whitney Essex: I'm not fat I'm having a baby.
  3. CC Bloom: You're not. You're having a baby?
  4. Hillary Whitney Essex: I'm three months pregnant.
  5. CC Bloom: That's great.
  6. Hillary Whitney Essex: Before I caught him with that woman we made love and that's when it ...
  7. CC Bloom: (interrupts) What woman?
  8. Hillary Whitney Essex: There was this woman I caught them together ...
  9. CC Bloom: (interrupts) Michael?
  10. Hillary Whitney Essex: Of course Michael and that's when it happened, and he doesn't want it because he's going to marry her. Can you believe it he's going to marry her?
  11. CC Bloom: (to bartender) Would you make this a double please?
  12. CC Bloom: (to Hillary) Let me get this straight. You caught Michael with another woman?
  13. Hillary Whitney Essex: Yes.
  14. CC Bloom: And now you're going to have a baby all on your own
  15. Hillary Whitney Essex: Mmhmm (shakes head)
  16. CC Bloom: Oh Hillary I think that's wonderful
  17. Hillary Whitney Essex: You do?
  18. CC Bloom: I think it's the most exciting thing and if it's a girl will you name it after me? (hugs Hillary)
  19. Hillary Whitney Essex: (quietly) Yes.
  – Submitted by Matthew C (10 months ago)
• 1. Hillary Age 11: Be sure to keep in touch C.C. okay?
  2. C.C. Age 11: Well, sure we're friends aren't we?
  – Submitted by Matthew C (10 months ago)

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