Au fil de la vie

A truly touching movie about two friends who meet as children and keep in touch into adulthood. Bette Midler is great as CC Bloom and sings a great soundtrack including the now classic hit "Wind Beneath My Wings." I really liked this movie and have purchased it both on VHS and DVD and often share it with friends. (I saw it twice in the theater.) Everyone should see this movie.

There are good movies and there are those you'll never forget that you can see many many times. Beaches definitely goes into the latter category Actually I didn't get to see it until a few years ago, maybe because I'm a guy and this kind of movies aren't what guys usually rent but as one grows up, so does the appreciations for sensitive movies like Beaches.

The book is even better and I wish they had made the movie even longer with more stories from the novel.

I recommend Beaches to both women and men, if you think you couldn't cry from a movie - watch this and see if you're wrong - I was...

Beaches is a wonderful movie, about two young girls, CC and Hillary who meet each-other whilst they're both on holiday at the same resort. Both of them are quite different from each other, CC being a New York performer and Hillary being a rich kid from San Francisco. The friendship they make though is one that will live on forever and in the movie we seem from the young girls they were when they met each-other to the successful women they are now. Even though they are both now apart from each-other, they keep in touch through letters, until Hillary who's now lawyer moves to New York to stay CC, who's a singer. Once they meet up again, the movie them shows you everything from there romances to the jobs, they're doing now.

The cast in the movie, including Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey and Mayim Bialik, who plays the younger version of Bette Midlers character all give wonderful performances here as usual.

Beaches is simply a classic amazing movie. I love it for many reasons, one being I'm a fan of Bette Midler and Mayim Bialik, who are both absolutely brilliant, the music in the movie is amazing and I absolutely love, "Wind Beneath My Wings". I recommend the soundtrack too and of course main reason for liking this movie is, it's just really nice, sweet and of course beautiful. You have to love it!

Was not very certain if I really wanted to view this film, some times Midler can be way out in left field. However, in this film Bette Midler, (CC Bloom),"That Old Feeling",'97 plays a very self-centered person who will stop at nothing to get what she wants and if it is a career on the stage, just forget about love or a husband and children. Barbara Hershey,(Hillary),"Riding the Bullet",'04, is a childhood friend of CC Bloom and in some ways they help each other, even though they are complete opposites. There is plenty of comedy, lots of fighting, and more drama than you can handle. Midler sings outstanding songs we all know by heart and it is a very entertaining film, but very very SAD!

This film was so hard for me to watch as my wife died from cardiomyopathy aged just 28 in 1991, we had/have 2 daughters who were 14mths and 3 yrs old when my wife died. The saddest part was that in late 1990 after my wife had been diagnosed with cardiomyopathy she watched on TV the film Beaches, (unknown to me), on her own in our bedroom and I was outside gardening at that time. I came in to see her later and I could tell she had been crying, when I asked why she had been crying she burst into tears saying she would never see our 2 girls grow up, i said "don't be silly" and gave her a big cuddle. At that time I thought that neither of us knew what her prognosis would be but she did because of the Beaches film but didn't tell me. A few days later she said that she had watched a film called Beaches and just said it was quite sad but gave me no details of the film. After my wife died I was devastated and life was very tough for many years, I'm now 63 and our daughters are 30 and 32, both now older than their mum was when she died and its so sad that they never knew her. They are both very happy today. I met someone in 2006 and we have been living together happily since. Just by chance in about 2014 my partner was going through Netflix and the film Beaches came up, because neither of us had seen it i said lets watch it as my late wife had seen this film and had said that it was sad. I quickly realised why she had said back in 1990 why she wouldn't see our girls grow up and I did cry watching it and thought of my late wife at 27 yrs old knowing that there was no cure and she knew that she wouldn't see her girls grow up 😢😢 I know this isnt much of a review but it brought back so many sad memories and how brave my wife was for not telling me 😢. Please watch the film its worth watching