Review of Mermaids (1990) by Dominic S — 18 Jun 2013

Mermaids is one of the best mother-daughter, "don't make the same mistakes I did" movies I have seen in my life.

In Mermaids, Mrs. Flax has been in and out of love for a while and she and her two young daughters have been moving from state to state every time she would dump or be dumped by the guy she was currently with. This story takes place in a small town in Massachusetts. Mrs. Flax (Cher) lives with her 15-year-old devout Catholic daughter Charlotte (Winona Ryder) as well as her younger, future Olympian swimmer, daughter Katie (maybe around 6-8, Christina Ricci (in her film debut)).

When they begin to settle down in this small town, Mrs. Flax meet Lou (Bob Hoskins), a shoe shop owning, baseball loving Italian. He is charming, generous, and completely loving towards and very interested in Mrs. Flax. What's better is that her two daughters really take a liking to him as one of the family, well mostly Katie, while Charlotte still dreams about meeting her real biological father.

The film gives us three different generations of women that all show the viewers how differently females are capable of acting at those different ages and yet how similar they are as in their mother daughter connections.

I feel like this is the better version of a mother-daughter film when compared to the film The Perfect Man starring Hilary Duff and Heather Locklear (which I saw before seeing Mermaids, I'm sorry but its true).

I truly enjoyed this movie. Even though I am not of the female gender, I was moved by the emotion and the driving love I witnessed through the great acting that Winona Ryder and Cher performed.

This is one of the best (true) mother daughter movies I have ever seen.

Mermaids, I give you an 80%,.