Wow!


Lydia Deetz from Beetlejuice and Wednesday Addams from the Addams Family are sisters and Alexandra Medford from the Witches of Eastwick is their mother.

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Yep, and it's for that kind of quirky reason (cf. 'Man, the Zodiac Killer must be tough if Iron Man, the Hulk, and Donnie Darko+Mephisto couldn't catch him!') that, sooner or later, everyone who's old enough to remember Mermaids coming out *is* going to watch this movie. For me Mermaids was "that Cher/Winona movie that flopped" at a time when both were golden, making hit after hit, many of them instant classics or near-classics. Mermaids is a bit of mess but I'm still glad to have finally seen it in 2021.

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Always liked the film and thought Bob Hopkins was great in it. Didn't realize it was supposed to have flopped and I'm wondering if it fared better outside the USA - but it's too old to have that breakdown on Box Office Mojo.

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Box Office Mojo's page for it is here:
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2103608833/weekend/

You're right that it doesn't seem to have overseas box-office info for Mermaids. The domestic financials suggest that the film almost broke even so, to be fair, Mermaids wasn't exactly a flop, rather it just wasn't the sort of big commercial and critical hit that both Cher and Winona had become known for. Now I think about it, I suspect that some of my memories of Mermaids 'lack of success' may have been illicitly transferred from another film Ryder made around the same time (which I've still not seen and probably never will), 'Welcome Home Roxy Carmichel'. *That* film was a flop/made almost no money and was very poorly reviewed, and Winona bad-mouthed both it and the whole experience of having to go out and promote a movie she herself deeply disliked.

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