Rating: PG-13
Movie Release Date: December 21, 1988
DVD Release Date: August 13, 2002
Plot 411: Two girls from entirely different backgrounds meet one summer at the beach in Atlantic City and become lifelong friends.
Review: As children, aspiring performer CC (Mayim Bialik) and little rich girl Hillary (Marcie Leeds) meet on the boardwalk. Despite their difference they instantly become friends and keep in touch with each other throughout the years through letters. As adults, they meet again (Bette Midler as CC and Barbara Hershey as Hillary) when Hillary moves to New York on impulse. They become roommates and really get to know one another. However, a love triangle begins when the women are both attracted to a director with whom CC is working. This, and other life events, cause the women's relationship to be strained. They have an on-again-off-again friendship until a major life event causes them to pull together once again and support one another. This movie has it all and is so perfectly heartwrenching that it'll make the toughest guy shed some tears. The musical score is great as well, but it is really the performances of the leads that make this movie work. The friendship between CC and Hillary is so strong that it is almost a living thing, and like every relationship it has its moments of strength and weakness. Like the theme song, "that's the glory of love."
Movie Release Date: December 21, 1988
DVD Release Date: August 13, 2002
Plot 411: Two girls from entirely different backgrounds meet one summer at the beach in Atlantic City and become lifelong friends.
Review: As children, aspiring performer CC (Mayim Bialik) and little rich girl Hillary (Marcie Leeds) meet on the boardwalk. Despite their difference they instantly become friends and keep in touch with each other throughout the years through letters. As adults, they meet again (Bette Midler as CC and Barbara Hershey as Hillary) when Hillary moves to New York on impulse. They become roommates and really get to know one another. However, a love triangle begins when the women are both attracted to a director with whom CC is working. This, and other life events, cause the women's relationship to be strained. They have an on-again-off-again friendship until a major life event causes them to pull together once again and support one another. This movie has it all and is so perfectly heartwrenching that it'll make the toughest guy shed some tears. The musical score is great as well, but it is really the performances of the leads that make this movie work. The friendship between CC and Hillary is so strong that it is almost a living thing, and like every relationship it has its moments of strength and weakness. Like the theme song, "that's the glory of love."
Watch It: With a box of tissues handy and the expectation that tears will fall.
Skip It: If you've got somewhere to be and don't want people staring at your puffy, red eyes.
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