i actually go to the trouble of register for this website ( which i love and and look at quite frequently ) . just to say that this be the absolute bad freekin movie i have ever see in my life . it be bother me for year and i just have to get it off my chest . i go to see this movie in 79 when i be a poor college student and and pay good money to get into the theater . well and it be the most overly dramatic and self indulgent piece of tripe i have ever witness . ( see all the other negative comment here and they go for me too . in spade ) . i could go on and on about how much i dislike it and but i would not . it permanently turn me off to bette midler and no matter what her other talent may be . ( although she do redeem herself a bit in my opinion by her excellent guest role in that one seinfeld episode ) . good movie be almost sacred to me . suffice it to say that this be the only movie i can ever remember walk out on in over 40 year . don not waste your time . any other crappy movie you can think of be good than this one . wheeewwwww . i feel well .