Splash

1984
PG
1h 51m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

85K

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Quirky Comedy Romantic Comedy Supernatural Fantasy Comedy Fantasy Romance

A young man is reunited with a mermaid he briefly encountered as a boy and falls in love with her without knowing her secret.A young man is reunited with a mermaid he briefly encountered as a boy and falls in love with her without knowing her secret.A young man is reunited with a mermaid he briefly encountered as a boy and falls in love with her without knowing her secret.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

85K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,742

447

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 wins & 10 nominations total

Trivia
The fountain from the movie is now on display at "Disney's" "MGM Studios" at Walt Disney World. The mermaid fin Daryl Hannah wore is behind the bar at Planet Hollywood in Downtown Disney.

Goofs
After Allen and Madison jump into the water at the end of the movie and fend off the frogmen, they immediately come upon a coral reef and other aquatic features that appear tropical and which would not be found in the Hudson River/New York Harbor.

Quotes
Freddie: People fall in love every day, huh? Is that what you said?
Allen: Yeah.
Freddie: Yeah? Well, that's a crock. It doesn't work that way. Look, do you realize how happy you were with her? That is, of course, when you weren't driving yourself crazy. Every day? Come on. Some people will never BE that happy. I'LL never be that happy. What am I talking to you for? You don't know anything.

Crazy credits
Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah swimming and coming towards an underwater kingdom.

Alternate versions
Some TV versions includes a longer version of the theme tune at the end.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Angel/Harry & Son/Splash!/Liquid Sky/And the Ship Sails On (1984)

Soundtracks
Love Came For Me
Written by Lee Holdridge and Will Jennings
Performed by Rita Coolidge

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Review

Featured review

7/10

Well-made comedy with a disturbing undertone of pessimism

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.)