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Additional DVD options | Edition | Discs | Price | New from | Used from |
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March 23, 2004 "Please retry" | Collector's Edition | 1 |
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Genre | Romantic Comedy |
Format | Color, Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen |
Contributor | Lowell Ganz, Tom Hanks, Shecky Greene, Eugene Levy, Bruce Jay Friedman, John Candy, Ron Howard, Dody Goodman, Daryl Hannah, Brian Grazer, Babaloo Mandel See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 50 minutes |
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Product Description
Don't let this spectacular 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition be the one that got away! Academy Award(R) winner Tom Hanks (1994 Best Actor, FORREST GUMP) stars as Allen Bauer, a workaholic who's convinced he can't fall in love. That is, until he's mysteriously rescued at sea by the mermaid of his dreams! Soon Allen and Madison (Daryl Hannah, KILL BILL) are swept away by hilarious and heartwarming romance. Academy Award(R) winner Ron Howard (2001 Best Director, A BEAUTIFUL MIND) directs a star-studded cast, including Eugene Levy (BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, AMERICAN PIE), and hilarious John Candy (HOME ALONE) in a magical tale that now includes all-new bonus features.
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.6 x 5.3 x 7.5 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : 786936207972
- Director : Ron Howard
- Media Format : Color, Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 50 minutes
- Release date : March 23, 2004
- Actors : Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dody Goodman
- Subtitles: : Spanish
- Language : Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish
- Studio : TOUCHSTONE PICTURES
- ASIN : B00015YVD6
- Writers : Bruce Jay Friedman, Lowell Ganz, Brian Grazer, Babaloo Mandel
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,401 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #52 in Fantasy DVDs
- #98 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #399 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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It would have been very easy for the movie to become a broad farce with Candy and Eugene Levy in the love story of the man and the mermaid, but writers Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel found the right note between love story and comedy, and the cast pulls off both. The comedy varies between clever and slapstick, and seeing the film again 20 years later still made me laugh at parts. As expected, Candy and Levy do the heavy lifting in the comedy department, and they are both hilarious in their respective scenes. The whole movie wouldn't work at all, though, if we didn't believe in the central love story - and Hanks and Hannah make it work.
Hannah is a mermaid apparently not unlike Disney's Ariel. She has a tail when wet, and legs when dry. Hanks is Allen Bauer, who has inherited his father's wholesale produce business along with brother Freddy. As a child Allen suddenly jumped into the water off Cape Cod, where the child mermaid rescues him until the adults can fetch him from the water.
As an adult Allen has commitment issues and admits he doesn't love his girlfriend. After a friend's wedding he returns to Cape Cod for a little nostalgia. Another boating accident results in another mermaid rescue, but the "girl" runs away as Allen regains consciousness on shore.
The mermaid fetches Allen's wallet from the ocean floor and follows a map to track Allen down in New York City. She climbs onto dry land at the statue of liberty - lacking a tail and clothes - and is taken into custody by the police. They call the guy who owns the wallet she's carrying. (The mermaid, of course, can't speak English...)
So Allen and the Mermaid are united again, where the attraction is powerful and mutual. The Mermaid learns English watching television for an afternoon (this makes the rest of the movie easier!) and she decides to make her American name "Madison" while looking at a street sign for Madison Avenue. (Many Americans subsequently chose "Madison" for their daughters after this movie.)
Allen only knows Madison is "foreign". Madison's time on land is limited. (For reasons that aren't exposed in the film.) Levy portrays a renegade pseudo-scientist who has been searching for a mermaid his entire career. When one swims past while he's diving at Cape Cod he is startled. Then he sees a newspaper photo of a nude girl at the Statue of Liberty that looks a lot like the mermaid...
The plot isn't difficult to guess, but the performances are full of funny and touching flourishes that make you laugh and care about these characters. This isn't really a 5-star movie - but I couldn't choose 4 1/2. It's a pleasant way to spend some time with your own sweetie.
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What might have been a shallow love story turns out to be a beautifully acted savage, animal-like, relationship.
And it ends up abruptly with a man refusing the world of man, to embrace his own nature. Leaving you to wonder if all this is actually a metaphor, about suicide, and the true friends and true love you have understanding your choices...
You know you have missed the beginning... and the credits do not give you the title.
15 years. I would like to thank Youtube, for having brought to my attention a top 10 list of mermaid movies.
See, I had been searching the wrong decade. This movie is from 1984, but the way it was filmed made it so beautiful in black and white, that I has assumed it came from the late 60s to early 70s. The golden era acting and the sudden twist in the direction, from one style to the other, also had me pinning this gem on the same plate as the old Planet of the Apes. (The practical effects are certainly at least on par.) I was wrong... and in my glorifying association, I couldn't experience back what that movie had done to me. It made me feel the torments of love and the importance of acknowledging one's own nature.
Turns up that movie had a few surprises yet for me.
What I didn't remembered were the carefully planned synergies, with the image and dialogue, to compose perfectly placed jokes. The nearly Terry Gilliam like quality of the nonsensical take about human life.
I am NOT the kind of guy that usually go out of his way to track back a romantic comedy.
But this one is as good as any trip down memory lane has the right to be.
Might even be better. (It passed the test of being presented with acclaim for "friends movie night" at least.)
Furthermore, it might be the best mermaid movie out there. (One of the two at least. The other one, "She Creatures" [2001] gets to the darker side of the lore.)
Not only because Daryl Hannah plays the wild creature in a magical way that makes the silly plot believable, but also because it doesn't shy away from the lore... even if it has to push it back a bit in the background, for it all to work. I mean... How many movie can claim to be funny, dramatic, romantic, and somewhat still carry a touch of horror, sci-fi / social commentary without failing?
ジョン・キャンディ
トム・ハンクス
ダリル・ハンナ
出演作品です。
子供の頃の出会い、再会を果たす愛の物語。
何度観ても素晴らしい。
備考として
スプラッシュ2 がTV版にて制作されたが出演者が刷新。