I've never seen
Mermaids. Does he perhaps play a Merman?
I just Googled Bob Hoskins to see what he's been up to, and this is the first image I see...
interesting pic.
that film is
(using an american expression ) just awesome.
funny...
amazon.com
In the early '60s, nomadic single mom Mrs. Flax (Cher) packs up her two daughters, Charlotte (Winona Ryder) and Kate (Christina Ricci), in a beat-up Chevy wagon and moves to small-town Massachusetts. Preteen Kate is obsessed with swimming, while 15-year-old Charlotte is searching for ways to rebel against her mom (and mom's flirty ways). The route she chooses is to become fascinated with Catholicism and all its arcane rituals, even though the family is Jewish. Her coming of age is handled with plenty of Wonder Years-style voiceovers as she fantasizes about Christ, the saints, the Pope, the Church--all things Catholic. Cracks in her religious armor begin to appear, though, in the form of a hunky local guy (Michael Schoeffling) who works at the convent. Meanwhile, her mom strikes up a romance with the town shoe-store proprietor, Lou (Bob Hoskins). Though Richard Benjamin's movie is a bit slow and tends to lose its focus somewhat in the last third, Mermaids also has fairly credible dialogue and surprisingly believable chemistry between Cher and Hoskins. The segments dealing with JFK's assassination are handled particularly well, and while Ricci's role is a rather small one, she's charming nonetheless. It's all too easy for coming-of-age movies to veer toward the maudlin, but thankfully this engaging comedy-drama seldom does. Cher, by the way, reprises her 1966 Sonny and Cher look, substituting a tight skirt and pumps for her turtleneck and fur vest. --Jerry Renshaw
Product Description
Cher is magical [and] electric (The Hollywood Reporter), Winona Ryder enchanting and funny (The New York Times) and Christina Ricci adorable and engaging (Variety) in this hilarious and heartwarming portrait of a 1960s single-parent family trying to adjust to each other'sgrowing independence. Charlotte (Ryder) is an adolescent girl torn between her blossoming passions for a handsome caretaker (Michael Schoeffling)...and her desire to be a nun (a tough calling for a girl who's Jewish). Complicating her already precarious teen angst is a little sister (Ricci), a determined would-be swimmer she affectionately calls fishhead, and their mother (Cher), a non-traditional, sexy, flamboyant woman who relocates them to a new town every time she causes a hint of scandalwhich is often. But even as their personal styles clash, these three incredibly different individuals begin to see that nothingnot even a life-threatening tragedycan tear apart the bonds of family.
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http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CE7D6123AF937A25751C1A966958260
i dont know if all parts are in there
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mermaids+cher&aq=f
offtopic
i always thought claude brasseur lookes a liitle bit similar like bob in the film
la boum. .but that could be just me...
another one i have also seen numerous times -la boum1+2(i dont know how popular the film is in america or the Uk but its a classic in france and germany starring a young sophie marceau. funny and entertaining film
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Vic (Sophie Marceau) is a spunky 13-year-old French girl who is trying to make it through adolescence despite the shaky relationship of her likable parents (Claude Brasseur and Brigitte Fossey). Blossoming into a young woman, she discovers the Parisian social scene and all its vices--boys, dancing, drinking--through a series of boums, teen parties. The situations are just what you'd expect from such a film--cute, charming, funny, awkward, and nostalgic. What separates this film from scores of others just like it is the bubbly Marceau.
i was too young to see it during the release but i saw it in the 90ties on tv numerous times
i found the sequel la boum 2 just as entertaining as la boum 1
edit:
i dont know if all parts are in there
http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...&search=Search&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&spell=1