Beaches is a 1988 movie adapted by Mary Agnes Donoghue from the novel Beaches by Iris Rainer Dart. It was directed by Garry Marshall, and stars Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray, Lainie Kazan, Mayim Bialik and Marcie Leeds. 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Garry Kent Marshall (born November 13, 1934) is an American actor/director/writer/producer. ... Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is a singer, actress and comedian. ... Barbara Hershey is an American actress (b. ... Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 - about January 10, 2004) was a U.S. actor, screenwriter and playwright. ... Lainie Kazan (born May 15, 1940 in New York City) is an American actress and singer. ... Former actress Mayim Bialik (born December 12, 1975 in San Diego, California, USA) is probably best known for her lead role in the NBC television series Blossom. ...
Rich girl Hilary Whitney (Leeds) and child performer CC Bloom (Bialik) meet on the beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and become friends, growing up (Hershey and Midler) to support each other and vie for the love of the same man. Atlantic City is a city located in Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 40,517. ...
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Albert Brenner and Garrett Lewis). The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. ...
The beach house in the movie is located in Crystal Cove State Park. Crystal Cove State Park has 3. ...
It's impossible to think of beachmovies without thinking of "Gidget." Sandra Dee is perfect as Gidget (Girl + Midget), the lovable tomboy who learns to surf while all the other girls are learning how to snare boys.
This time around, the beach bunnies and their boyfriends move indoors for a slumber party.
Soon afterward beaches became places where the bookish teenager went not to have fun but to have sand figuratively - if not literally - kicked in his face by some gleaming tenement of muscle while a tanned bikini-wearer looked on.
The mind-boggling linguistic validation of the idea of the beach as a kind of sexual jungle was the naming, in 1946, of the two-piece swimsuit for the atoll in the West Pacific where the U.S. government had tested the atomic bomb that year: Every beach was transformed into an explosion waiting to happen.
The great beachmovies are not celebrations of youth, freedom, and sexual vigor but metaphoric excursions into entrapment and danger, or, in the case of Eric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1982) and A Summer's Tale (1996), meditative inquisitions into the behavioral follies of young people hanging out in coastal settings.
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