Touches You

Beautiful, moving film.

A lot of fun.

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

OK, but not great, drama. A story that follows the lives of two women, from their meeting as 11- year olds, their resulting friendship, and then the ups and downs of their relationship, careers and personal lives. Decent enough story and reasonably emotional. However, it feels predictable and unoriginal. While emotionally manipulative, it doesn't really offer anything new on the subject of friendship.Also, thanks to Bette Midler's performance, it often veers into comedy space, and over-the-top comedy at that. While Midler is great in these scenes, it does lighten the mood too much.

My mom told me about this film ages ago and I seen it on TV twice before and let me tell yeah that this movie was so so sad to watch I literally cried every time I watch and hear that song Wind Beneath My Wings(yeah that is hands down the saddest songs of ALL time for me as it moves me and i always cry at it).The movie tells the tale of two best friends who meet up in Atlantic Beach and knew each other since they were kids. Now as adults one of them is a singer while the other isn't but she is hiding something from her best friend,she has this condition that the doctors can't help her with and she has a few months to live.Bottom line if you are like me a big softie who gets easily upset over movies involving dad's dying,animals dying or if you lost a loved one. Then check out Beaches.

I'm surprised to see this only has a 6.3/10 so far... it's in my top 5 favorite movies of all time. Some guys say it's a "chick flick" but that's silly; this is a tale of friendship, life struggles, love, sorry, and pain. I love the friendship the two little girls had in the movie. Simply outstanding...The soundtrack, of course, is awesome. The acting is superb... The lady that played Hilary was outstanding.It also had some really funny parts, like the part with the dog.The ending is so painful...Definitely a must-see!

No, definitely not my usual sort of movie (being a bloke) but I loved this. The kids are great (and I usually hate child actors in lead roles) and Midler & Hearshey are on top form. Sure it's predictable and plays on the heartstrings but not in the vomit inducing way so many of these type of films seem to do. Brassy chick meets demure kid, chalk meets cheese, they become great mates, fall out, fall in, fall out again, fall in again, fall out, tragedy strikes and by the end the world becomes a warmer place and you'd have to have a hard heart not to have at least a lump in your throat by the end. Great theme song too. You should be able to get the DVD of this for about £2 to £3 in your local store nowadays, a bargain!