TY - ADVS AU - Marshall,Garry AU - Donoghue,Mary Agnes AU - Midler,Bette AU - South,Margaret Jennings AU - Bruckheimer,Bonnie AU - Hershey,Barbara AU - Heard,John AU - Gray,Spalding AU - Read,James AU - Kazan,Lainie AU - Delerue,Georges AU - Dart,Iris Rainer ED - Touchstone Pictures. ED - Silver Screen Partners IV. ED - Touchstone Home Video (Firm) ED - Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm) TI - Beaches SN - 0788859145 PY - 2005///] CY - Burbank, Calif. PB - Touchstone Home Video, Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment KW - Dart, Iris Rainer KW - Female friendship KW - Drama KW - Terminally ill KW - Film adaptations KW - lcgft KW - Fiction films KW - Feature films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - 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; Special features: Widescreen enhanced for 16x9 televisions -- Beaches bloopers -- 1989 Grammy Award-winning Song Of The Year and Record Of The Year "Wind beneath my wings" music video performed by Bette Midler -- AFI's 100 years ... 100 songs with Bette Midler (clip) -- Mayim Bialik remembers Beaches -- Barbara Hershey screen test -- Audio commentary with director Garry Marshall -- Theatrical trailer -- Language: English Dolby digital surround ; French Dolby digital surround -- Subtitles: English, French; 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 N2 - Two childhood friends are reunited in their middle age and one learns she is dying of a fatal disease ER -