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| Splash [1984] | ![Splash [1984]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419BWM3SFRL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Ron Howard
Actors: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Dody Goodman
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Category: DVD
List Price: £15.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3987
Format: Pal, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 105 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017188886185
ASIN: B00006JI3U
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: March 9, 1984
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Tom Hanks was a relatively unknown TV actor with a sitcom as his biggest credit when relatively unknown director Ron Howard (best known for his own sitcom acting) cast him in this surprise hit. It made stars of Hanks, Daryl Hannah and John Candy and an A-list director out of Howard. Hannah is a mermaid who comes to Manhattan in search of Hanks, the guy she has twice saved from drowning. Hanks runs a business with his loveable, blowhard brother (Candy), whose goal in life is to have a letter published in IPenthouse/I. When this perfect woman shows up, Hanks can't believe his luck and plunges into a dizzyingly romantic relationship, unaware of her sea-water secret. But the mermaid needs to soak and unfurl her tail from time to time, which leads to complications, including her capture by the government for scientific study (what else?). Hanks is winningly charming and Hannah is a perfect match in this enjoyably high-spirited comedy, though the biggest laughs belong to Candy. I--Marshall Fine/I
Amazon.co.uk Review
ISplash/I was big news in 1984. It was the sole reason for a renewed Disney Studios forming its Touchstone Pictures subsidiary. This was so they could get away with displaying Daryl Hannah's nude bottom! It was also big news for launching the film career of Tom Hanks, who immediately became a massive box-office comedy draw in the 80s. For Ron Howard, it was the breakaway success that guaranteed he'd be able to pursue as diverse a directorial career path as he wanted to. It's a simple romance tale, spiced up by making the female lead a mermaid. The stroke of brilliance in the script was in making the comedy happen around the two leads, while letting them believably convey they are hopelessly lost in love. The comedy comes from the ever-reliable John Candy as a larger-than-life womanising older brother, and Eugene Levy as a scatty scientist. Although New York looks a little different today, the movie has hardly aged at all. Which is just as well since it boldly begins "This morning." p BOn the DVD:/B ISplash/I offers a transfer that has some defects, but colours and dark areas seem just about right. We're spoiled for extras, with a warmly nostalgic Howard joining a key production crew commentary in reminiscing on how much fun they had making the movie. There's a half-hour documentary ("Making a Splash") interviewing everyone involved, including some archival footage of the late Candy. Best of all are the original Audition Tapes for Hanks and Hannah, which reveal the consummate professionals these once-hungry stars really are. --IPaul Tonks/I
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 Hanks Candy.....Great December 17, 2008
A great comedy with Tom Hanks The late John Candy br /Enjoyable love story involving a mermaid Some great one liners ie Candys "If something works for me I stick with it" br /Recommended ! Has Ron Howard Ever made a duff movie .......I dont think so !
 An 80's great. December 9, 2008
For me, watching Ron Howard's Splash is like paging through an school photo. Look how young everyone is! Oh, the potential they had! What a great time that was! Most of the major talent in Splash did better projects later on, but the movie is a fun reminder of where everyone started and ended up.br /br /Tom Hanks, showing early signs of that everyman charm, plays Allen Bauer, a single New Yorker consumed by his job and coming off a bad breakup. Driven by alcohol and a lingering childhood memory of encountering a young mermaid on Cape Cod, Allen takes a cab to Massachusetts. The trip turns out to be a bust: He nearly drowns and loses his wallet.br /br /The little mermaid in Allen's past also didn't forget about their encounter. Days after Allen's ill fated New England trip, that mermaid (Daryl Hannah, all legs and blonde hair) shows up nude, speaking no English and looking for Allen. At the police station, the two hit it off immediately, though Allen knows nothing of their past connection. As they fall deeper in love, the mermaid (who dubs herself Madison after the ritzy avenue) is torn with conflict. Does she stay with Allen or return to the sea? These options get perilous as a crazed and determined paleontologist (Eugene Levy) hunts her down, buckets teeming with water at his side.br /br /Howard and screenwriters Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, and Bruce Jay Friedman never allow the movie to get too whimsical or too sugary. It's ideal Sunday afternoon entertainment and a pleasant, appealing reminder of how Ganz and Mandell became screenwriting giants in the 1980s and early 1990s. At their peak, with movies such as Parenthood and A League of Their Own, they were masters at balancing gentle sentiment with belly laughs.br /br /It's also nice to see Levy play someone else. Much to my chagrin, he's become a household name playing Jim's Dad from American Pie in all of his movies since 1999. From my standpoint, it's nice to see Daryl Hannah when she was dewy and starlet-new and not as an alumna of Quentin Tarantino's kitsch rejuvenation program. Undoubtedly the sweetest sight in Splash is the late John Candy, who steals every scene he's in as Hanks' up skirt peering, playboy wannabe older brother.br /br /I will go to my grave believing that - regardless of material - Candy was one of the most underrated actors of his time. His presence here is undeniable: one part con man and one part goofy best friend, and his energy is contagious. And his scene playing racquetball with Hanks is a riot. Wearing a sweatsuit a size too tight, a cigarette hanging from his lip, he's determined to beat his younger brother. He just needs to get a beer first.br /br /He'll be missed at the 20-year reunion.
SPLASH Smart, Perfect, Loveable, Awesome, Smitten and Heart-warming August 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In the first of Ron Howard's and Tom Hanks' collaborations, Hanks stars as Allen Bauer, an unlucky in love man who travels to Cape Cod, where he meets a beautiful woman, who has a secret, she is a mermaid.br /br /In perhaps a forgotten gem of the 80's, Howard delivers a heart warming tale about one man and his unlucky in love life, and how the extraordinary can bring out the hearts desires in a truly good funny and ultimately tale.br /br /Hardly his best role, Hanks still delivers in a cliche hero role as Allen, someone all men can relate to. A man who needs to get over his own personal fear in his pursuit for happiness.br /br /Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill) is excellent in the role of Madison the mermaid. The way Hannah portrays her makes you wonder how a real person would feel coming into an unknown environment and having to learn someone else's language. She is a joy to watch and the onscreen relationship with Hanks is perfect, exactly what was needed to produce the wonderful outcome.br /br /Who says romantic comedies are soft mushy stuff? There is plenty of action and suspense in this 1984 comedy to keep everyone entertained. br /br /This is a true family classic, an old fashioned soft tale that is consistently entertaining and funny, something which is rare in modern day cinema.br /br /Eugene Levy (SCTV Network 90) is the funniest in the entire film with a daft character who is simply loveable despite being the villain of the picture.br /br /The whole concept of scientific experiments and animal cruelty is an intriguing side story, and makes you think what would happen today if an unknown creature was found.br /br /Though consistent and funny, it is so by following plenty of conventions, which can give an essence of predictability, but nonetheless it is a heart warming entertaining tale.br /br /8/10
ITS A SPLASH March 1, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Before Tom Hanks hit the big time with BIG he teamed up with a very sexy Daryl Hannah in this feel good classic with love of a different kind. At the start Hanks is a young boy who accidently falls off a boat whilst holidaying with his family, just when all seems lost he is rescued by a young mermaid but after being pulled away by the rescuers fears he will never see her again, that is until some years later a reoccurence of the same event brings them both together again. Now Hanks must keep this affair secret or risk losing her forever. The film also stars John Candy as Hanks's rich and much different older brother...This wonderful comical story may have you reaching for the tissue box...
Funny, Magical, Loving - Fantastic Family Movie! October 12, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A must-see for lovers of Disney's The Little Mermaid and Forrest Gump. The great cross between the two makes this film heart-warming and magical. It isn't babyish at all though, it's one of the films or the eighties that are just overlooked and forgotten. It just doesn't get the credit it deserved! pOne of my ABSOLUTE FAVOURITES! ^_^pIt's about a mermaid who goes on land to see what it's like. She is like Ariel and can't talk, but it's rather funny as she walks around the city naked! She is taken in by this guy (Played by Tom Hanks) and they fall in love. Word suddenly gets out that she's a mermaid and she is taken to a museum and kept in a large fish tank. The guy saves her and they swim off into the ocean at sunset. YAY!
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