Beaches
By: Touchstone Pictures presents in association with Silver Screen Partners IV ; a Bruckheimer/South production ; produced by Bonnie Bruckheimer-Martell, Bette Midler, Margaret Jennings South ; screenplay by Mary Agnes Donoghue ; directed by Garry Marshall
Contributors: Hershey, Barbara, 1948-; Heard, John, 1946-; Gray, Spalding, 1941-2004; Read, James, 1952-; Kazan, Lainie; Dart, Iris Rainer; Touchstone Pictures; Silver Screen Partners IV; Touchstone Home Video (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
Edition: Special ed.
Publisher: Touchstone Home Video; Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Burbank, Calif
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9780788859144
Subjects: Drama; Terminally ill; Female friendship
Description: Two childhood friends are reunited in their middle age and one learns she is dying of a fatal disease.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1988.

Based on the novel by Iris Rainer Dart.

Special features: bloopers; music video: 'Wind Beneath My Wings' by Bette Midler; "AFI's 100 years ... 100 songs with Bette Midler"; Mayim Bialik remembers Beaches; Barbara Hershey screen test; audio commentary; theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Dante Spinotti ; film editor, Richard Halsey ; music, Georges Delerue.

Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray, James Read, Lainie Kazan.

MPAA rating: PG-13.

DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital surround sound.

English or French dialogue, French subtitles; closed-captioned.