Rating: PG13
Genre: Comedy Drama
Release Date: 02/06/2001
SubTitles: French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: 2/5.1
Run Time: 110 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: MGM

There's no point in recounting the many production problems and personal hostilities which plagued the filming of Mermaids: the end result is all that matters. Set in the 1960s, the film details the relationship between an unorthodox, unmarried vagabond mother (Cher), and her two daughters. The 15-year-old (Winona Ryder), continually embarrassed by her flamboyant mother, wants to be the world's greatest Catholic; the nine-year-old (Christina Ricci) would be satisfied with becoming the world's champion swimmer. Moving with her family to New England, the older daughter falls in love from afar with the groundskeeper (Michael Schoeffling) from a nearby convent, while Mom takes up with a lonely salesman (Bob Hoskins). Mermaids is perceptively adapted from the warmly comic novel by Patty Dann.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Cher - Mrs. Flax
Bob Hoskins - Lou Landsky
Winona Ryder - Charlotte Flax
Christina Ricci - Kate Flax
Michael Schoeffling - Joe
Caroline McWilliams - Carrie
Jan Miner - Mother Superior

Production:
Richard Benjamin - Director
Lauren Lloyd Wallis Nicita Patrick Palmer - Co Producer
Jack Nitzsche - Composer
Jacqueline Cambas - Editor
June Roberts - Screen Writer
Deborah Kanter Philip Messina Hilton Rosemarin - Set Designer
Evelyn Sakash - Art Director
Steven A. Saklad - Art Director
Suzanne Rothbaum - Associate Producer
Harald Ortenburger - Camera Operator
Margery Simkin - Casting
Howard Atherton - Cinematographer
Marit Allen - Costume Designer
Christopher Cronyn - Production Designer
Stuart Wurtzel - Production Designer
Brian Ricci - Stunts
Patty Dann - Book Author

The Book of Stars
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1990 Golden Globe

1990 National Board of Review