Beaches

Beaches (1988)

Timing: 2:3 (123 min)

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Release date

1988-12-21

Country

United States

Production

Silver Screen Partners IV, Touchstone Pictures, All Girl Productions

Genre

Comedy, Drama

Budget

$20 000 000

Revenue

$57 041 866

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Director

Garry Marshall

Actors

Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray, Lainie Kazan, James Read, Grace Johnston, Mayim Bialik, Marcie Leeds, Carol Williard
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Scenario

Producer

Bette Midler, Bonnie Bruckheimer, Margaret South, Teri Schwartz

Operator

Dante Spinotti

Composer

Georges Delerue

Artist

Audition

Editing

Richard Halsey
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• Barbara Hershey's character develops viral cardiomyopathy. This disease is caused by Coxsackie B virus, which weakens the heart muscle and reduces its ability to pump enough blood. The disease was incurable at the time the film was made, as depicted on screen. However, after 2005, treatment with beta-blockers and implantable defibrillators became – quite successfully – available.
• Mayim Bialik did not sing on camera. Bette Midler requested that a girl with a voice similar to her own sing in the film.
• Barbara Hershey appeared younger in the film thanks to cosmetic surgery. In reality, the actress was 40 years old.
• The heroine played by Barbara Hershey develops viral cardiomyopathy.