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| Orion Pictures | Release Date: December 14, 1990 |
Starring:
Betsy Townsend, Bob Hoskins, Caroline McWilliams, Cher, Christina Ricci, Jan Miner, Michael Schoeffling, Paula Plum, Richard McElvain, Winona Ryder
Summary:
An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.
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It's sweet and funny one moment, melodramatic and contrived the next. Blending the moods, and often holding the film together through sheer force of personality, Ryder gives her most affecting performance to date. [14 Dec 1990, p.26]
Though Mermaids moves in familiar circles, it tells its story (which is as much about mom's coming of age as the kids') in a nice mix of daft comedy and dramatic set pieces. It's a kind of Terms of Endearment without the tearjerking. [14 Dec 1990, p.G5]
As eccentric mother-daughter films go, this one [from the novel by Patty Dann] falls into the same category as Terms of Endearment, with many of the same comedic pleasures and dramatic pitfalls. The delightful Ryder, billing notwithstanding, is really the star. Cher is also fine as the cavalier, self-centered mom, an equally amusing if less sympathetic character.
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Cher plays a footloose, life-loving mother of two fatherless daughters who sports a bouffant hairdo and, at one crucial point, a Mylar mermaid costume that looks as if it were constructed, on a bet by designer Bob Mackie, entirely out of common household objects. The part isn't much of a stretch for America's reigning queen of wacky non-conformity, though it should please her established fans while scraping the nerves of the unconvinced as lightly as possible.
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Mermaids will satisfy those who like sentiment served on a plastic platter. Others should treat it like 3-day-old fish. [14 Dec 1990, p.5D]
Mar 14, 2019
Lo mejor de todo es el trío protagónico, el cuál tiene una química increíble, lo único malo es que, a pesar de que la película no es para nada aburrida, se siente demasiada plana todo el tiempo.
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Jun 2, 2019
Mermaids is a wonderfully colourful film about a straight lace daughter, her Mother and young sister growing up in the 1960s. Surprisingly still holds up and unlike what the critics said at the time, it remains a classic film.
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