Tom Hanks

Daryl Hannah

Eugene Levy

John Candy

Dody Goodman

Shecky Greene

Richard B. Shull

Bobby Di Cicco

Howard Morris

Tony DiBenedetto

Patrick Cronin

Charles Walker

David Knell

Jeff Doucette

Royce D. Applegate

Tony Longo

Nora Denney

Charles Macaulay

Ronald F. Hoiseck

Lou Tiano

Joe Grifasi

Rance Howard

Corki Grazer

Fred Lerner

David Lloyd Nelson

Al Chesney

Lowell Ganz

James Ritz

Maurice Rice

Babaloo Mandel

Pierre Epstein

Cheryl Howard

Louisa Marie

Valerie Wildman

Christopher Thomas

Rick Dano

Clint Howard

Ron Kuhlman

Lori Kessler

Joe Cirillo

Tom Toner

Lee Delano

Migdia Skarsgård Chinea

Jack Denton

Nick Cinardo

Fil Formicola

Than Wyenn

Clare Peck

Eileen Saki

Jodi Long

Victoria Lucas

Jeffrey Dreisbach

Amy Ingersoll

Daryl Edwards

Jack Hallett

Bill Smitrovich

Nancy Raffa

David Kreps

Jason Late

Shayla Mackarvich

Brian Grazer

Danny Aiello III

Daniel P. Hanley

Ron Howard

Mike Hill

John Thomas Lenox

Wilbur L. Russell

Jack Sandeen

Jan R. Lloyd

Sandy Berke Jordan

Hans Beimler

Richard S. Church

Christopher Griffin

Bruce Hutchinson

Bobbi Kronowitz

Al Maguire

Joe Parker

Roger Tweten

Carol Ann Jackson

Doug Metzger

Kal Manning

Robert J. Schiffer

Jack Wadsworth

Lyla Foggia

George Fredrick

Robert Hathaway

Richard Luckey

Mitch Suskin

Nick Alphin

Richard Portman

David Oliver Pfeil

Tom Gerard

Frank Regula

Wayne Fitzgerald

Tim Gallin

Alex Stevens

Jery Hewitt

Michael M. Vendrell

John De Bello

Len DeVirgilio

Edgard Mourino

Fred Waugh

Al Cerullo

Anne Senelly Kyle

Scott Leva

John Cade

Lisa Dalton

Hubie Kerns Jr.

Bill Anagnos

A.L. Sheppard

Roy Thomas

Peggy Westmoreland

Catherine Schultz

Victor Magnotta

Jesse Wayne

Tommy J. Huff

Bruce Jay Friedman

Lee Holdridge

John B. Mansbridge

Bill Shepard

Norman Rockett

Donald Peterman

Jack T. Collis

Philip Smith

May Routh

Jophery C. Brown

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Comedy

Romance

Fantasy

Splash

Touchstone Pictures

United States of America

English

new york city

bachelor

mermaid

cape cod

produce seller

sympathetic

Kamurai

Really good watch, could watch again, and can recommend.

Even after 25 years, this holds up, though a modernization is probably due soon.

Hop in the way back machine and see some of the greats early on: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, and Eugene Levy.  That team pretty much carries the movie and they go through a wonderful, fun-filled adventure into a mystery of a new girl in Allen's life.  Honestly, you could probably cut out the mermaid bit and have her be a crazy foreign girl, though that sounds like a movie someone has made already.

It being a mermaid movie definitely makes some allowances, and makes the movie more memorable.  It adds in a metaphor of the importance of communication into the writing, and gives a focal point for the story to move around and become a focus in the 3rd act.  As there is barely a direct antagonist in this, this sort of conflict is usually how a romantic comedy resolves.

It's a fun watch, well made for it's time, and imagine most people, especially mermaid movie fans, will enjoy it.

CinemaSerf

Twenty years earlier "Allen" (Tom Hanks) had a mysterious underwater encounter with a rescuer. Advance to present day and he is managing a fish market with his sibling "Freddie" (John Candy). Another trip to Cape Cod, another accident and yep, it's the same saviour - only this time their eyes meet over a choppy sea and shortly afterwards she follows him onto the land. It's lust/love at first sight and pretty soon she is living with him. She (Daryl Hannah) calls her self "Madison" after the avenue/president and after a day in Bloomingdale's television department picks up enough English to join in the rest of this rather slapstick movie - or to at last have a post-coital chat! Thing is, madcap scientist "Prof. Kornbluth" (Eugene Levy) is soon on her tail (!) and after chucking buckets of water at a similarly attired couple a few times, our lovebirds find themselves incarcerated in a lab where they are to be the subject of some nasty experiments. Can they escape the clutches of their captors and get her back to the open sea before six days expire and she finds herself stuck? The idea is quite fun and at the start when they are in their respective discovery phases, it's quite entertaining. It just repeats itself too often, though, and the presence of his annoyingly selfish brother just clutters it all up, gradually creating the look of a slightly farcical episode of the "A-Team". It's watchable but I didn't find there to be any chemistry between the stars - Hannah was never a particularly engaging actor, I found - and it's all rather forgettable.

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Allen Bauer Thought He'd Never Find The Right Woman... He Was Only Half Wrong!

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Written by Kamurai on Mon Sep 21 2020

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