Splash(Movie, 1984)

Name: Splash
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love
Released: 1984
Duration: T01:51:00
Rating: 3.1

| 1h 51min | Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.1/5 (with 584 votes)

Splash is a 1984 American romantic fantasy comedy film directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, and Bruce Jay Friedman, and a story by Friedman and producer Brian Grazer. The film stars Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, and Eugene Levy. Its plot involves a young man who falls in love with a mysterious woman who is secretly a mermaid. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It is notable for being the first film released by Touchstone Pictures, a film label created by Walt Disney Studios that same year in an effort to release films targeted at adult audiences, with mature content not appropriate for the studio's flagship Walt Disney Pictures banner. Splash received a PG-rating for some profanity and brief nudity, and was criti... ()

Part of the Splash Collection

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Awards & Nominations for Splash

Saturn Award for Best Actress National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nominated for: Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy nominated for: National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay nominated for: Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor nominated for: Saturn Award for Best Director nominated for: Saturn Award for Best Actress nominated for: Saturn Award for Best Make-up nominated for: Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film nominated for: Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

About Splash

A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.

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Trailer for Splash + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Splash (1984)(Trailer, 2:42)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: New York City (NYC), Los Angeles (California), Bahamas

Plays in: New York City (NYC)

Made by: Touchstone Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 28 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Burmese (MY), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 03/09/1984

Cast: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dody Goodman, Rance Howard, Royce D. Applegate, Jeff Doucette, Richard B. Shull, Howard Morris, Tony Longo, Bobby Di Cicco, Nora Denney, Patrick Cronin, Shecky Greene, Charles Macaulay, Joe Grifasi, Clint Howard, Nick Vallelonga, Valerie Wildman, Lee Delano, Jodi Long, Eileen Saki, Bill Smitrovich, Migdia Chinea Varela, Than Wyenn, Charles Walker, Ronald F. Hoiseck, Jack Hallett, Daryl Edwards, Fil Formicola, Rick Dano, Babaloo Mandel, Fred Lerner, Bob Harks, Jill Jacobson

Director: Ron Howard

Producer: Brian Grazer

Screenwriter: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman, Brian Grazer

Film Editor: Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill

Director of Photography: Donald Peterman

Composer: Lee Holdridge

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Un, Dos, Tres... Splash"

"Всплеск"

Keywords: produce seller, new york city, bachelor, mermaid, cape cod

Budget: 8,000,000 USD

Revenue: 69,821,334 USD (= 873%)

2 movies in the Splash Collection

1984 Splash

1988 Splash, Too

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