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20 tearjerker movies Hollywood should leave alone
By Joey Guerra Updated 1:15 pm, Thursday, July 28, 2016
Lifetime is really trying it.
First, they gave us half-hearted biopics of Whitney Houston and Toni Braxton. Now, the cable channel “for women” is — gasp! — remaking a tearjerker classic.
Idina Menzel, Broadway and “Frozen” star, has been cast in a 2017 remake of “Beaches.” That’s right, the 1988 film starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey that still makes us cry every single time.
The reaction from social media? A unanimous “WHY?”
“Beaches” is already perfect. The two leads. The songs. Mayim Bialik as a young Cece Bloom. LEAVE IT ALONE, LIFETIME.
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Idina Menzel is everything. And we’d like to give her a chance. But Bette Midler and ‘Wind Beneath My Wings‘ and Mayim Bialik as little CeCe Bloom and Barbra Hershey were already perfect. It’s going to be difficult to top the tears, especially on Lifetime.
