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a very moving movie, about a friendship with barbara hershey and bette midler.. very sad from brooklyn,, and bette midler is great, and john hurt is also fantastic. see it one time for it is a very sad and heart wrenching movie. taxes the soul with strong emotion, especially for the feeling of lost ones and lost friends.

What a joke of a movie. The writing was especially bad...the acting wasn't much better. I like tearjerkers, but this one had me laughing due to the inane dialogue. What a joke!

Film follows the friendship of two very different women over the course of their lives--loud, tacky, driven CC (Bette Midler) and quiet, demure Hilary (Barbara Hershey). CC will do everything to become an actress and singer--Hilary isn't sure what she wants. This is commonly referred to as a "chick flick". Now I LIKE those types of movies and I think Midler and Hershey are great actresses (and singer in Midler's case) but I REALLY hated this film. It starts off OK but slowly falls to pieces. At the halfway point I started to truly despise this movie. There's HORRIBLE dialogue and such clichéd situations and characters that I was literally rolling my eyes a few times. I began to hate it more and more and by the end I was fed up completely. The movie is so completely obvious I was truly shocked. When a character is diagnosed with a fatal disease I came close to throwing something at my TV screen. And it takes her FOREVER to die! The movie has at least three different endings--all bad--and the REAL ending is so horribly manipulative I was stunned! Many people said they cried at the end--I did too--tears of JOY that this dreck was finally OVER!!! It's really astounding that people think this is a great movie. It WAS a huge hit in 1988--that's kind of sad. I'm giving it a 3 instead of a 1 for a few reasons--It was great to see Lainine Kazan and John Heard (although they're given nothing to do); "Wind Beneath My Wings" is a great song; and Hershey and Midler were good despite the material. Midler especially made the most of her few good lines. But this is a morbid, sick, depressing and insulting movie. Avoid it like the plague!

A chick flick that appeals to all. The "sunset/hearse" cut was the most poignant death scene I've ever seen in film. Have to admit I was teary on that one. This is the kind of film that tugs at the heartstrings..guy or gal