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Release Date:
9 March 1984 (USA)
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Tagline:
Two days ago, this girl showed up naked at the Statue of Liberty. For Alan Bauer, it was love at first sight. Now, everyone is chasing her... trying to prove she's a mermaid. From the first laugh you'll be hooked. more
Plot:
A man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 2 wins
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7 nominations
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(48 articles)
Michael Keaton: 'There's a price to pay for making your own choices'
(From The Guardian - Film News. 19 November 2009, 1:40 PM, PST)
Coolidge: 'I'm not good at schmoozing'
(From digitalspy. 2 November 2009, 12:42 AM, PST)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 19 November 2009, 1:40 PM, PST)
Coolidge: 'I'm not good at schmoozing'
(From digitalspy. 2 November 2009, 12:42 AM, PST)
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Well-made comedy with a disturbing undertone of pessimism
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tom Hanks | ... | Allen Bauer |
 | Daryl Hannah | ... | Madison |
 | Eugene Levy | ... | Walter Kornbluth |
 | John Candy | ... | Freddie Bauer |
 | Dody Goodman | ... | Mrs. Stimler |
| Shecky Greene | ... | Mr. Buyrite |
| Richard B. Shull | ... | Dr. Ross |
| Bobby Di Cicco | ... | Jerry |
| Howard Morris | ... | Dr. Zidell |
| Tony DiBenedetto | ... | Tim, The Doorman (as Tony Di Benedetto) |
 | Patrick Cronin | ... | Michaelson |
| Charles Walker | ... | Michaelson's Partner |
 | David Knell | ... | Claude |
 | Jeff Doucette | ... | Junior |
| Royce D. Applegate | ... | Buckwalter |
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111 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Canada:A (Nova Scotia) |
Netherlands:MG6 (DVD rating) |
Iceland:L |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
Chile:14 |
Finland:S |
Norway:12 |
Singapore:PG |
Sweden:7 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG |
West Germany:6
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The "Crazy Eddie" commercial that surprises Madison was for a real electronics store. Eddie and Sam M. Antar opened Crazy Eddie in Brooklyn, NY in 1971. Their spokesman was WPIX-FM disc jockey Jerry "Dr. Jerry" Carroll, whose frenetic nonstop sales pitch was based on used car salesman Earl "Madman" Muntz. The pitch always ended with "Crazy Eddie, his prices are IN-SA-A-A-A-A-A-ANE!" The chain grew to 43 stores in 4 states. It closed in 1989 after charges of fraud and security violations.
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Revealing mistakes: While diving, the scuba tank on Kornbluth's back is clearly fake. If it was a backup air source, the pinched-off air hose from the boat wouldn't have mattered.
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Referenced in "Californication: Fear and Loathing at the Fundraiser (#1.4)" (2007)
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Wooly Bully
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How does it end?What is the piece played on the music box and by the violinist?
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Splash is a really well-made Hollywood fantasy comedy, with early Tom Hanks already developing into the charismatic everyman and Darryl Hannah and John Candy at their best. But under the comedy and sweetness I have always thought there was a disturbing undertone of extreme pessimism--just what kind of ugly and cruel society do we live in, in which the mermaid Madison's only prospect is that she will be tortured, from which Hanks' character ultimately has to flee, never to see his beloved brother again? (The same dark undertone is even more pronounced, I think, in Ron Howard's next big hit Cocoon, where the old folks willingly escape an earth and families that don't seem to offer them anything anymore.)