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Bette Midler - Movies
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| Midler is simply the best at
singing, acting, and keeping the audience with great entertainment to make
them cry and laugh at the same time. |
Intimate
Portrait: Bette Midler (1998) VHS
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| If you have ever wanted to
know more about the life of Bette Midler, this is the movie for you. It
tells about her albums and movies and about the ups and downs of her life.
"It's the Divine Miss M as you've never seen her before!" |
That
Old Feeling (1997) DVD
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| When an inimically divorced
couple meets up again at the formal wedding
of their somewhat humiliated daughter, their animosity is rekindled
on sight, But that spark quickly snowballs into an old flame, as the energies
they expend on insults an other inflammatory incivilities
quickly translates into a burning passion. |
Hocus
Pocus (1993) DVD
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In 1693, the citizens of Salem,
Massachusetts go into a frenzy when they discover that 3 among
them -- Winifred, Sarah
and Mary Sanderson -- are witches. Fearing their pagan villainy, the community
agrees to hang the old hags. But head sorceress Winifred vows they'll come
back to life one day and seek vengeance. 300 years later, Max, a cynical
teenager stuck chaperoning his kid sister as she goes trick-or-treating,
is spotted by classmate-dream girl Allison. In order to impress her, Max
lures them into the Sanderson sisters' house where they accidentally bring
the wretched shrews back to life. The witches now have one night to renew
their life force -- or they'll disappear forever. Can the kids stop them
from achieving their nasty purposes? |
Stella
(1990)- VHS
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| Bette Midler stars in the title
role of "Stella," a 1990's update of two previous tearjerkers. A single
mother works above and beyond her duty to provide a better life for her
daughter than the one she had. |
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Isn't
She Great (2000) DVD
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| Bette Midler plays the brash,
self -obsessed Susann, who started as a struggling actress yearning for
fame and not too picky about what she was famous for. Fortunately, she
catches the eye of personal manager Irving Mansfield (Nathan Lane), who
seems to have no particular skills either but who is so passionately devoted
to his client that he marries her. |
Gypsy
(1993) VHS
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| This faithful broadcast TV
remake of the classic Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim musical looms
as a career triumph for top-lined Midler -and a bittersweet measurement
of how far mainstream film and TV have retreated from
the glories of musical theater. By the time Midler, as the mother of all
stage mothers, observes, "I was born too early and started too
late, " it's only too obvious that the star's words are an
ironic inversion. Had Midler been born earlier, she certainly
would have reigned as a major musical comedy star. In a role
form-fitted to Ethel Merman's brassy persona and brassier voice, Midler
more than holds her ground musically and, especially, dramatically. |
Down
and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) DVD
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| Featuring a neurotic dog, an
anorexic daughter, a sexually confused son, and Little Richard as a neighbor,
this riotous household and its strange yet sympathetic inhabitants are
the ingredients for one of the freshest, funniest comedies in years. --Robert
Lane |
Ruthless
People (1986) DVD
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| A milestone comedy of the 1980s,
Ruthless People delighted critics and audiences alike and set the tone
of Hollywood comedies for years to come. Along with that other popular
farce about wealthy Californians, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, this ingenious
romp revived Bette Midler's career and launched Disney (by way of its subsidiary,
Touchstone Pictures) into the lucrative production of R-rated comedies;
it also ensured the star power of then-TV star Danny DeVito. --Jeff
Shannon |
Big
Business (1988) DVD
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| This film is so funny. Bette
Midler and Lily Tomlin are fantasic together |
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Drowning
Mona (2000) DVD
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| Drowning Mona, a disconsolate
black comedy about a bitter old harridan (Bette Midler) who takes a header
into a lake in one of the tiny, tinny cars, and the sheriff (Danny DeVito)
who has a town full of folks who were itching to see her dead. |
The
First Wives Club
(1996)
DVD
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| Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler,
and Diane Keaton prove that revenge is a dish best served cold. Former
college buddies, they reunite at the funeral of a dear friend who took
a swan dive onto Fifth Avenue. All three discover they share the same unhappy
history of husbands who dove into middle-age by dumping them for trophy
wives. Forming a warring triumvirate, they decide to get even, and along
the way remind themselves of long-forgotten capabilities. The action gets
a little too "wacky" at times, but the gals are great. |
For
the Boys (1991) DVD
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A lavish musical
melodrama chronicling the career of a popular USO singer and
her partner, a
seductive comedian as notorious
for his roving eye as he is for his jokes. The pair team up for a USO revue
in London 1942, and though they quarrel offstage, onstage they're the perfect
couple. They remain together fifty years, weathering two more wars,
broken marriages, and personal tragedies. |
Beaches
(1988) DVD
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| The story of a deep friendship,
lasting from childhood to beyond death, between two very different women
-- one a poor but ambitious Jewish girl from the Bronx who goes on to become
a famous Broadway star, and the other an attractive WASP from a wealthy
San Francisco family who starts out with all the advantages in life yet
manages to find nothing but disappointment. |
Divine
Madness! (1980) DVD
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| Divine Madness makes an absolute
spectacle of itself. Bette Midler's raunchy, entertaining persona is on
high in this concert film filmed in Pasadena. Midler tells dirty jokes,
berates herself and the audience, and most of all belts out (some may say
shrieks out) covers of Bruce Springsteen and rock and swing classics. |
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