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Mermaids
Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. And when they move to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.
4 April 1945, Seattle, Washington, USA
10 December 1960, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
16 September 1928, Thurber, Texas, USA
January 01, 2000
a Cher fan's dream come true, a lively tale that allows her to play the kind of free-loving free spirit she used to sing about in 1970s numbers like 'Dixie Girl' ('waitin' on tables and passin' myself around' went the lyric)
January 01, 2000
Having made something of a specialty of woe-is-me, adolescent angst, Ryder finds a deeper level here, a level of comedy with something genuinely painful mixed in.
January 01, 2000
It's awash in mediocrity, waterlogged with innocuousness and redeemed only occasionally by sweet-faced Ryder.
January 01, 2000
When "Mermaids" is on the mark it's a riot - but often it bogs down with pointless set-pieces that seem to go nowhere and suffers from an ending that feels contrived and overly sentimental.
July 19, 2003
A bright, buoyant comedy about an unusual mother-daughter relationship.
May 06, 2005
Three generations of greatness
June 24, 2006
Self-conscious, eccentric...
July 30, 2002
A pleasant but dull coming of age story that doesn't quite swim.
May 20, 2003
Miss Ryder is so good, in fact, that "Mermaids" might have dared to be a tougher, more satisfying movie than the stylish sitcom it is.
January 01, 2000
I found a lot of it preposterous, but I enjoyed that quality. Why do we look at movies? To learn lessons and see life reflected back at us? Sometimes. But sometimes we simply sit there in the dark, stupefied by the spectacle.
March 26, 2009
The delightful Ryder, billing notwithstanding, is really the star.
December 18, 2010
Moving, but teen sex content meant for discussion.