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Splash (1984)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:32
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: A perfectly light, warmly funny romantic comedy that's kept afloat by Ron Howard's unobtrusive direction and charming performances from Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A charming, sexy and funny mermaid tale with Tom Hanks as a successful, young businessman who has everything but love, that is until he meets up with the girl of his dreams, played by Daryl Hannah;... A charming, sexy and funny mermaid tale with Tom Hanks as a successful, young businessman who has everything but love, that is until he meets up with the girl of his dreams, played by Daryl Hannah; however, unbeknownst to him, she is a mermaid targeted for capture by an obsessed oceanographer. Perfect performances and clever laughs make this a must see for fans of romantic comedy. [More]
Starring: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy
Starring: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy
Director: Ron Howard
Director: Ron Howard
Composer: Lee Holdridge
Screenwriter: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman
Story: Bruce Jay Friedman
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Reviews for Splash
Its appeal is based almost entirely on regression -- a thematic regression to infancy and a stylistic regression to the most lulling kind of TV blandness.
It's too bad the relentlessly conventional minds that made this movie couldn't have made the leap from sitcom to comedy.
It's also very funny, thanks largely to Candy in the lecherous fat sidekick role, and a string of set pieces that show Hannah as, quite literally, a fish out of water.
Howard demonstrates exactly the correct soft touch, skirting the myriad problems of taste.
Director Ron Howard has a good sense of the whimsical, and his film is sweet and unpretentious, though somewhat ribald when one realizes the studio from whence it sprang.
Splash is probably the ultimate fish-out-of-water film, primarily because it literally features a fish out of water.
Splash is a light-hearted comedy directed by Ron Howard that sparkles here and there thanks to its fairy tale elements.
The movie that really showed Tom Hanks' promise as a deliverer of great comedy and heart-warming pathos.
Splash may feature a heroine with fins, but it's mostly a standard love story, albeit one with some delightful new twists.
Hannah does wonders with her thankless job, flitting tiny moments of joy and confusion across her face.
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