"Beaches" is a bosom-buddy movie about a friendship that was meant to be---like Laverne and Shirley or Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon (in the "Odd Couple"). As the buddy movie rule requires, it is a tale of abiding love between opposite souls, a friendship formed against the odds. The core plot of this drama, however, is more than a pack of cliches. There is not a lot of originality in this movie, and at times, …showed first 75 words of 486 total…

…showed last 75 words of 486 total…beautiful blonde. The kid and CC will have a tear-jerking, heart-tugging scene where they decide to go through life together, singing and dancing. There is no doubt that the people who made the film approached it with great sincerity. However, "Beaches" lacks the impulsiveness that people came to expect of Bette Midler in the eighties. This is a movie constructed out of other movies--cliches that were old before the cast members ever dreamed of Hollywood.