Beaches

DVD Features:

Audio:

• Dolby Digital Surround Sound - English

Additional Release Material:

• Bloopers - BEACHES BLOOPERS
• Commentary - Garry Marshall - Director's Commentary
• Featurette - 1. AFI'S 100 YEARS...100 SONGS WITH BETTE MIDLER
                   2. Mayim Bialik Remembers BEACHES
                   3. Barbara Hershey Screen Test
• Music Video - "Wing Beneath My Wings" - Bette Midler
• Trailer - Theatrical Trailer

Product Description:

The chance meeting of two young girls from totally different backgrounds becomes the friendship of a lifetime. As they lead their separate lives, they come to realize and later rely on the strength that their friendship provides. Academy Award Nominations: Best Art Direction.

Plot Synopsis:

The story of a deep friendship, lasting from childhood to beyond death, between two very different women -- one a poor but ambitious Jewish girl from the Bronx who goes on to become a famous Broadway star, and the other an attractive WASP from a wealthy San Francisco family who starts out with all the advantages in life yet manages to find nothing but disappointment.

Plot Keywords:

Drama | Friends | Heartwarming | Illness | Melodrama | Recommended | Tear Jerker | Theatrical Release

Production Notes:

• Estimated budget $20 million.
• Shot in Metrocolor.
• Eugenia Weston designed Bette Midler's makeup and Bob Mills applied it; Barbara Lorenz was Ms. Midler's hairstylist.
• Critically-lauded screen debut of young actress Mayim Bialik, who in the early 90s became the star of a popular television sitcom called "Blossom".
• Working titles for the film were "Friends" and "Remember Me."

Cast and Crew: