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Splash is a 1984 fantasy film and romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. It was the first movie released by Touchstone Pictures, which was established by The Walt Disney Company to release films targeted towards older audiences. Although originally conceived as an "adult" film, Splash today is considered by some to be a family-friendly movie. Tagline: Two days ago, this girl showed up naked at the Statue of Liberty. For Allen Bauer, it was love at first sight. Now, everyone is chasing her... trying to prove she's a mermaid. From the first laugh you'll be hooked.
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Plot summarySpoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
As a boy, Allen Bauer, who doesn't know how to swim, is rescued from drowning off Cape Cod by a young female mermaid. Years later, now co-owner with his brother (John Candy) of a wholesale fruit and vegetable business in New York City, Allen returns to the same location and again falls into the sea. He wakes up on a beach where he encounters a beautiful woman who, unknown to him, is the mermaid he met as a boy - she is naked, and wearing the same necklace that she wore as a girl. He instantly becomes attracted to her, as she again saved him from drowning. But after kissing him, she dives into the sea and leaves Allen to return home. The mermaid finds Allen's wallet that he dropped in the water and decides to find him in New York. (In one scene that was deleted, the mermaid meets with a sea hag who tells her that she can only stay six days from the sea, but she has to wet her tail every day, which explains the bathtub scene.) She comes ashore at Liberty Island naked, arrested for indecent exposure. The crowd boos at the cops for arresting a beautiful woman just because she is naked. She gets released in Allen's care (when she has been dry for a certain period of time, her tail turns into legs). She later picks up English from watching television all day at Bloomingdales. Needing a name, Allen lists some choices as they walk. While doing so when on Madison Ave., he asks himself aloud "Where are we? Madison," which the mermaid picks as her name. Image:Mermaidtwo.jpg Daryl Hannah as "Madison" from the film Splash. Allen quickly falls in love with her. While Madison requites his love, Allen finds it hard to understand her unusual behavior (for example, eating an entire lobster, shell and all). To compound her problems, she is pursued by Dr. Walter Kornbluth (Levy), an eccentric scientist intent on proving mermaids exist. When he finally proves Madison is a mermaid by dumping water on her and turning her legs into a tail, she is taken in by scientists for examination. Sorry for what he has done, Kornbluth helps form a rescue party along with Allen and his brother. After a pursuit through the streets of the city, she jumps back into the ocean. Allen jumps in after her (she tells him that as long as she's with him, he's safe under the water) and they both continue their lives in what appears to be an underwater kingdom. Spoilers end here.
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Impact on popular cultureImage:Splashpic.jpg Daryl Hannah & Tom Hanks in a promotional photo for the film The film is credited with popularizing the name "Madison" for girls. In the film, Daryl Hannah's character takes her name from Madison Avenue after walking past a road sign. Hanks' character comments that it is not a real name as, at the time, it was a rather unusual name for a woman. However, in the years since the film was released in theatres and re-released on VHS and then DVD, the name's popularity has skyrocketed. According to the Social Security Administration, the name "Madison" was the 216th most popular name in the United States for girls in 1990, the 29th most popular name for girls in 1995, and the 3rd most popular name for girls in 2000 [1]. In 2005, the name finally cracked the top 50 most popular girls' names in the United Kingdom, and articles in British newspapers credit the film for the popularization. Butch Hartman once credited the Eugene Levy character as the inspiration for his character of Denzel Crocker on The Fairly Oddparents. Both characters are obsessed with a certain legendary creature and spend their free time trying to prove that such creatures exist. As a result in both cases, the characters have practically no social life and various enemies. Songs in movieThis song or music-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
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