Splash (1984)

Daryl Hannah acts like a cave woman

You idiots realize she was a mermaid, right? You expected her to come out of the sea quoting Shakespeare?

Since that movie I have judged every mother of every little girl named Madison. Seriously, it's the surname of a President, a street in Manhattan and a character played by a somewhat Autistic actress. Great name choice!

R2. Wait...she was a mermaid? What would we do without your astute insight!

[quote] it had already been turned down by Julia Louis-Dreyfus,

As well you should have Julie

The Kardashians all talk like her their little girl voices and dumb-dumb vocabulary

Dudley Moore?!? I'm glad we didn't get that version.

I love '80s Tom Hanks. He was funnier, sexier and quirkier. Splash, Bachelor Party, Money Pit, Big and Punchline. I'll take them over Philadelphia or Cast Away any day.

Dudley Moore played this role in real life when he dated Susan Anton

I'm surprised that there aren't sequels and prequels and reboots and reimaginings and a Broadway show by now.

Hanks turned out to be the biggest star out of all those men.

And who the fuck are Genie Francis, Lynne Frederick, or Fiona Fullerton?

R10 There's a gender-swapped reboot coming out next year with Channing Tatum as the mermaid.

Saw it when it first came out. Thought it was cute and inoffensive. It was clear that Daryl Hannah could not play a convincing human but she was fine as a fish. Tom Hanks was considered a major comic find.

Fiona Fullerton

Diana Ross.

R11- Genie Francis played Laura of "Luke and Laura" fame. I think she left General Hospital around 1982. I can't see why she'd turn this down because it's not like her film career caught on fire. Maybe she was scared of the water.

Tom Hanks has a long scene where he completely naked in a water tank covering his dick with his hands. It's totally unsexy and forgettable because it's Tom Hanks, but other actors might not want to have done it.

He was kind of sexy in a dorky way. I mean at that point the movie Big was his biggest hit.

That's not Diana Ross, r15. That's Gladys Knight.

Why are you even linking either woman on this thread?

You forgot about me, OP. I was offered to play the mermaid but Sue Mengers messed up the deal.

Tom Hanks got better looking as he got older,put on some weight and lost the 80s perm.

Great bush that I would have gladly buried my face in.

One thing I remember is that I rented Splash on the same day as my first gay porn, William Higgins Cousins. Friends were at my house to watch Splash but I couldn't wait for the movie to be over so I could watch the porn. Couldn't wait for my parents to go to bed either. I was very underage, but the video store gave it to me. Oh and once I got off I watched Splash again and liked it.

I remember Daryl Hannah was introduced as this new ingenue, but she never really did anything with as much attention.

One word, R8: COCAINE.

Watching it now and it's hard to believe it was such a hit movie.

[quote] It was clear that Daryl Hannah could not play a convincing human but she was fine as a fish.

Isn't that the point? She was supposed to be awkward as a human.

Any more news about that Channing Tatum remake? This is all I could find an AV Club article from April:

[quote]With her next movie, Marja-Lewis Ryan is jumping from the gritty, drug-fueled drama of 6 Balloons to the campy mermaid romance of the Splash reboot. Almost two years have gone by since the Channing Tatum-Jillian Bell-led reboot was announced, and we’ve still seen no word of a release date or production announcement. But Ryan, who is writing the script, tells us that it’s still on.

I loved John Candy in this movie.

Madison learned English by immersing herself watching American TV at a department store of course it wasn’t Shakespearean.

I loved when she climbed up the streetlight to gaze at a Dont Walk signal because she thought it was PRETTY!

Daryl Hannah seems as dumb as a box of rocks. I never got why this movie made it.

OMG, can you imagine what this movie would have been like if it HAD co-starred Julia Louis-Dreyfus and, say, John Travolta?!

Where will they put the cock in Channing's tail?

Agreed R27! Only watched it because of John Candy and Eugene Levy.

John "requested" his friend Eugene get the part of Walter Kornbluth, as in, "Gene gets the part or you don't get me," which showed not only John Candy's clout but his loyalty to friends.

For years CityTV used the squash scene from this movie in their afternoon movies intro.

It introduced this gayling to the glamour of 1980s Manhattan!

I have a hard time believing this was ever offered to J L-D. Did anyone even know who she was in 1984?

She had been a cast member on SNL.

Julia Louise Dreyfus: "I'm the heiress to the Dreyfus Foundation ! I'm not wearing no mermaid costume for hours on end inhibiting my bladder flow. Oh hell, NO!!"

I still love this movie but i'm sure if it came out now tumblr/twitter would find something wrong with it. And you're right R17, it's not a sexy scene at all.