Beaches (film)

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Beaches is a 1988 Academy Award-nominated movie adapted by Mary Agnes Donoghue from the novel of the same name by Iris Rainer Dart. It was directed by Garry Marshall, and stars Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, James Read, Spalding Gray, Lainie Kazan, Mayim Bialik and Marcie Leeds.

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[edit] Characters

CC Bloom - (Bette Midler)

  • (At 11 years of age) "Leona, you've gotta stop - you're ruining my career!"
  • "What the hell is this - a piano bar or a Nazi work camp?"
  • "Harry, you're an angel. If your mother hadn't been such a bitch, we could've shared something important."
  • "He hates my hair!"
  • "Sexual attraction has nothing to do with character. Unless you're Eleanor Roosevelt."
  • "But enough about me. What about you? What do you think of me?"
  • (To her dog) "Get back, you brain damaged bag of bones, or I'll have you gassed!"
  • (To a film director) "You've had your head in that frigging monitor the whole time - you haven't said anything about character or motivation. You could be watching a Laker game in there, for all I know!"
  • (After slapping John's face on her wedding day) "This is the happiest day of my life. I don't ever want you to forget it!"
  • "Are you ready for your radar, dear?"
  • "Look at this place. It looks like a flamingo threw up in here!"


Hillary Whitney -(Barbara Hershey)

  • "And your talent, this incredible talent! I can't even yodel!"
  • "I'm not stubborn, I'm.....right!"


[edit] Dialogue

  • Hillary: "Then you want me to wait for you?
    CC: "Don't you really think you'd ought to wait? I mean, I am dressed like a rabbit"
  • John: "Why do you waste your time doing this?"
    CC: "I can't help myself. I love to get dressed up like a rabbit, and go out in public!"
    John: "Well, is there any place I can come and see your work?"
    CC: "I'll be at Gramercy Square Park this afternoon, in a chicken suit!"
  • CC: "Harry, give us a hand with the bags."
    Harry: "I've got a bad back."
    CC: "Ah, you've got a bad attitude!"
  • Hillary (Referring to a drunk outside CC's apartment): "She could be dead!"
    CC: "Nah! If she was dead, she would've dropped the bottle!"
  • Doorman: "Congratulations on winning the Tony Award."
    CC: "Wasn't that something? Did you like my speech? I didn't mean a word of it! Did you see those other broads nashing their teeth? Ha ha, was great, wasn't it?"
  • Victoria: "You smoked when you were my age?"
    CC: "Sure"
    Victoria: "What else did you do?"
    CC: "Whatever they told me not to!"

[edit] Taglines

  • "The friendship you'll always remember. In the film, you'll never forget".


[edit] Cast


[edit] External links

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