Mermaids
Mom is many things... normal isn't one of them.
Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary.When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs.Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down.
- Director
- Richard Benjamin
- Worldwide
- $35M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
14 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Mermaids returned 1.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $31M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $35M
- Release date
- Dec 14, 1990
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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