Beaches

Dec 21, 1988

2h 3m

★ 6.7

Some Friendships Last Forever

Overview

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Touchstone Pictures

All Girl Productions

Silver Screen Partners IV

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Cast

CC Bloom

Bette Midler

Hillary Whitney Essex

Barbara Hershey

John Pierce

John Heard

Dr. Richard Milstein

Spalding Gray

Leona Bloom

Lainie Kazan

Michael Essex

James Read

Victoria Essex

Grace Johnston

CC (age 11)

Mayim Bialik

Hillary (age 11)

Marcie Leeds

Aunt Vesta

Carol Williard

Mr. Melman

Allan Kent

Sammy Pinkers

Phil Leeds

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

6.9

Fly Away Home

Sep 13, 1996

Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest was torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When winter comes, Amy and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South.

5.2

Bhaji on the Beach

Sep 11, 1993

A group of South Asian women try but cannot escape their problems on a day trip to a British beach resort.

0.0

Pighead

Invalid Date

Two friends work together to follow their passion of filmmaking, but as their journey progresses, their friendship falls apart into a sloppy mess.

5.9

Last Orders

Sep 10, 2001

Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy

7.6

The Fall

Sep 9, 2006

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

9.0

Where Your Eyes Linger

Jul 6, 2023

Friendship evolves into something more between two high school students: a playful chaebol heir and the diligent bodyguard who's always by his side.

7.4

Zulu

Jan 22, 1964

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.

6.5

Beast

Apr 18, 2018

A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.