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Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus (1993) more movies like this

directed by Kenny Ortega
featuring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch

Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy romp around like coked-up versions of The Three Stooges in the frantic Disney romp Hocus Pocus. The film begins in 1693 where three witches -- Winifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Mary (Kathy Najimy) -- are preparing a potion that will grant them immortality and eternal ...

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The First Wives Club

The First Wives Club (1996) more movies like this

directed by Hugh Wilson
featuring Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton

Three women plot revenge on their two-timing husbands in this comedy. Brenda (Bette Midler), Elise (Goldie Hawn), and Annie (Diane Keaton) were close friends in college, but 27 years after graduation they've lost touch with each other, and it's not until a mutual friend of the three commits suicide that they meet at the funeral for the first time ...

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Oliver and Company

Oliver and Company (1988) more movies like this

directed by George Scribner
featuring Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Bette Midler

In this modernized, animated adaptation of Dickens' Oliver Twist, set in the grim streets of New York City, Oliver is an innocent kitten trying to survive. He finds himself involved with a gang of canine crooks owned by the evil human Fagin. One day, Oliver and his pal the Chihuahua Tito find themselves in a lonely rich girl's limo. Little Jenny ...

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Beaches

Beaches (1988) more movies like this

directed by Garry Marshall
featuring Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray, Lainie Kazan

Based on a novel by Iris Rainer Dart, Beaches traces the 30-year oil-and-water friendship between free-spirited Bronx Jew CC Bloom (Bette Midler) and uptight San Francisco WASP Hillary Essex (Barbara Hershey). The two meet as children in Atlantic City (played by Mayim Bialik and Marcie Leeds) and are reunited in the 1960s, when CC is a struggling ...

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Outrageous Fortune

Outrageous Fortune (1987) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Hiller
featuring Shelley Long, Bette Midler, Peter Coyote, Robert Prosky, John Schuck

Two women with serious differences are forced to look out for each other in this anarchic comedy. Sandy (Bette Midler) and Lauren (Shelley Long) are a pair of struggling actresses who don't get along especially well -- and are even less fond of each other when they discover that they're both dating the same man, Michael (Peter Coyote). However, ...

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Ruthless People

Ruthless People (1986) more movies like this

directed by David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
featuring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris

The last film to be co-directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, Ruthless People stars Bette Midler (capitalizing on her comeback performance in Down and Out in Beverly Hills) as Barbara, a spoiled rich woman who is kidnapped by the kindly Ken and Sandy Kessler (Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater). Barbara's forceful husband Sam ...

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Drowning Mona

Drowning Mona (2000) more movies like this

directed by Nick Gomez
featuring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Will Ferrell

Rage, jealousy, murder, and Eastern European automotive engineering combine in this offbeat black comedy. Verplanck, NY, is a small town north of Manhattan that has the dubious distinction of being the Yugo capital of America; the ill-fated import compact was first test-marketed in Verplanck, and nearly everyone in town drives one. So no one finds ...

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Fantasia 2000

Fantasia 2000 (2000) more movies like this

directed by Eric Goldberg, Francis Glebas, Gaëtan Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, James Algar, Paul Brizzi, Pixote Hunt
featuring Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones, Bette Midler, James Earl Jones, Penn Jillette, Teller, James Levine, Angela Lansbury, Leopold Stokowski

Initially released to IMAX theaters at the crescendo of millennial fever and 60 years after the original Fantasia, Fantasia 2000 was meant to revitalize Walt Disney's goal of a constantly evolving film, with new segments replacing old ones with each re-release. Only The Sorcerer's Apprentice remains, with seven new shorts. Angular, abstracted ...

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Big Business

Big Business (1988) more movies like this

directed by Jim Abrahams
featuring Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann, Michele Placido

Thanks to a mix-up at birth, two sets of twins are separated and grow up in radically different social circles. The four baby girls grow up to be Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin-and Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. One of the Midlers is a ruthless New York CEO, while one of the Tomlins is her air-headed "save the whales" business partner. Thousands of ...

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Divine Madness!

Divine Madness! (1980) more movies like this

directed by Michael Ritchie
featuring Bette Midler, Irving Sudrow

Bette Midler's wildly funny and theatrical stage show is preserved on the big screen in this concert film shot in California in 1980. Along with her usual raunchy comedy material and over-the-top staging, Midler performs some of her best known songs (including "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Chapel of Love") along with Bruce Springsteen's "E Street ...

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The Rose (1979) more movies like this

directed by Mark Rydell
featuring Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus

Bette Midler stars as Rose in this somber drama loosely based on the life of the late Janis Joplin. She plays an ill-fated singer who succumbs to the pressures of performing by indulging in drugs and alcohol. Her sweetheart Dyer (Frederic Forrest) is the former chauffeur who naively tries to save her from self destruction, while her British ...

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For the Boys (1991) more movies like this

directed by Mark Rydell
featuring Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal, Patrick O'Neal, Chris Rydell

Bette Midler stars as a Martha Raye-type entertainer during the World War II era in this big-budget nostalgia piece. Midler plays big-band singer Dixie Leonard, who is chosen to perform at an overseas USO Christmas show by her uncle Art Silver (George Segal), a comedy writer for famed comedian Eddie Sparks (James Caan). Dixie is shuttled to London ...

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That Old Feeling (1997) more movies like this

directed by Carl Reiner
featuring Bette Midler, Dennis Farina, Paula Marshall, Gail O'Grady, David Rasche

In this Carl Reiner-directed romantic comedy, Bette Midler stars as a movie star named Lilly, who has had a fairly successful career which is now on the downturn. Years after a terrible divorce, she meets up again with her ex-husband Dan (Dennis Farina) at the wedding of their daughter Molly (Paula Marshall). Molly is marrying a young and ...

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The Stepford Wives (2004) more movies like this

directed by Frank Oz
featuring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Roger Bart, David Marshall Grant, Jon Lovitz, Faith Hill, Lorri Bagley

Ira Levin's best-selling novel about a town where great wives aren't born but made gets a second screen adaptation in this darkly satirical comedy drama. Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is a successful television executive until one day her career hits the glass ceiling and crashes to the ground. Looking to take some time off to start over, Joanna ...

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Stella (1990) more movies like this

directed by John Erman
featuring Bette Midler, John Goodman, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason

Bette Midler stars as Stella Claire, a working class, fun-loving barmaid in northern New York State. A brief affair with handsome Stephen Dallas (Stephen Collins) produces a daughter, Jenny (Trini Alvarado), who Stella insists upon raising alone, despite Dallas' marriage offer. As the years pass, Stella and Jenny are a happy pair. Stella gives up ...

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Isn't She Great (2000) more movies like this

directed by Andrew Bergman
featuring Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing, David Hyde Pierce, John Cleese

Jacqueline Susann spent a long career on the edges of show business as an actress and model, but it never really paid off until she quit acting to write her first novel. Valley of the Dolls was a proudly sleazy potboiler that sold 26 million copies and had readers wondering which characters matched up to which real-life show-biz figures. Susann ...

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Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) more movies like this

directed by Paul Mazursky
featuring Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler, Little Richard, Tracy Nelson

Down and Out in Beverly Hills is an updated remake of the 1932 Jean Renoir film Boudu Saved By Drowning. Philandering businessman Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) rescues scraggly tramp Jerry Baskin (Nick Nolte) from drowning himself in Dave's swimming pool. Much against his will, Jerry is invited to enjoy the hospitality of Dave, his social ...

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Scenes from a Mall (1991) more movies like this

directed by Paul Mazursky
featuring Bette Midler, Woody Allen, William Irwin, Daren Firestone, Rebecca Nickels

Woody Allen and Bette Midler star as a well-heeled couple who spend their 16th wedding anniversary at the mall shopping for a party that they're throwing that night. In the course of the shopping afternoon, they watch their marriage hit the rocks as serious problems develop when the guy admits to an earlier infidelity, and an out-and-out argument ...

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Jinxed! (1982) more movies like this

directed by Don Siegel
featuring Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn, Val Avery, Jack Elam

Jinxed is an apt name for this disastrous project which, sadly, turned out to be Don Siegel's final film. The film takes place in Reno, where blackjack dealer Willie Brodax (Ken Wahl) becomes an innocent victim of a broken-down gambler named Harold Benson (Rip Torn). Such is Willie's luck that when he sees Benson sit down at his blackjack table, ...

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Gypsy (1993) more movies like this

directed by Emile Ardolino
featuring Bette Midler, Cynthia Gibb, Peter Riegert

Based on a Broadway play and featuring the Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim score, this is a remake of the 1962 movie which was based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, a stripper, depicting her life growing up in "show biz." Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide

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Get Bruce! (1999) more movies like this

directed by Andrew Kuehn
featuring Bruce Vilanch, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg

This is a documentary portrait of a Hollywood comedy writer cited by many of entertainment's biggest stars as their comedic "secret weapon." Bruce Vilanch is a rotund, hirsute New Jersey native who left a job at a Chicago newspaper in the 1970s to become a gag writer for singer and actress Bette Midler. After toiling for several years in the dying ...

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Then She Found Me (2008) more movies like this

directed by Helen Hunt
featuring Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Ben Shenkman

Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt makes her feature directorial debut with this adaptation of Elinor Lipman's best-selling novel about a Philadelphia schoolteacher (Hunt) whose long-lost birth mother (Bette Midler) reappears at the very moment her daughter is careening into a midlife crisis. Abandoned by her husband (Matthew Broderick) and ...

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