Production numbers *
add life to Beaches +

Beaches **'4 (Touchstone) Rated M (at the Vancouver Centre, Rich-
mond Square, Park Royal, Station Scuare, Guildford and Willowbrook

6)

ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Cc Bloorn (Mayim Bialik) is in Atlantic
City (under the boardwalk, to be precise) sneaking a smoke

when she meets Hillary Whitney (Marcie Leeds), a very rich

and very lost little girl.

It’s the beginning of a true
friendship.

Hillary is in awe of CC. The feel-
ing is mutual. CC is in awe of CC,
too. And why not? The kid can
sing up a storm and with CC’s
mom in charge, Leona (Lainie
Kazan) — a stage mother that puts
Terri Shields to shame — there's
no question that CC is heading
places. But right now, she’s head-
ed back to the Bronx while Hillary
departs for her home in San Fran-
cisco.

The two women grow up in
their separate worlds but a steady
stream of letters keen them linked
to each other for over a decade. |

Feeling suffocated in her con-
ventional lifestyle, Hillary (now
played by Barbara Hershey) arrives

“AFFOR

TIM
BELL

film reviewer

unannounced at a New York City
dive where CC (Bette Midler) is
performing.

Despite being total opposites,
CC and Hillary share the rent,
facials and marathon gin games.
Their cosy life is interrupted by
CC's showbiz break at a successful
avant-garde theatre. The at-
mosphere in their tiny apartment
becomes frigid when both fall for
the little theatre's director, John
Pearce (John Heard).

As the green eyes flash, the
melodrama threatens to drown the
film’s strengths. Simple scenes like
Hillary coaxing the Jewish CC to
sing Christmas carols with her or
CC tending her roommate's plants,
are replaced by soap opera.

To break up the usual fare of
crumbling marriages and turbulent
careers, Bette Midler delivers two
knock-out production numbers
and a half-dozen songs. Although
the women’s friendship is the
film’s core, what lingers is CC’s
chilling number in an experimen-
tal musical and an amusing vulgar-
ity that celebrates brassieres.

It’s great to see a film where two
women mature through each
other, but Beaches relies too much
on overused plot devices.

NORTH SHORE VIEWS
West Van Odeon: Twins, Physical
Evidence, Pin
Park Royal: Beaches, Accidental
Tourist, Naked Gun, Oliver & Co.
Park & Tilford: Twins, Dirty Rot-
ten Scoundrels, Land Before Time,
Talk Radio, Mississippi Burning,
Physical Evidence, Working Girl

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