Mermaids [videorecording] / an Orion Pictures release ; a Nicita-Lloyd-Palmer production ; a Richard Benjamin film ; screenplay by June Roberts ; produced by Lauren Lloyd, Wallis Nicita, Patrick Palmer ; directed by Richard Benjamin.
Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Michael Schoeffling, Christina Ricci, Caroline McWilliams, Jan Miner. Based on the novel "Mermaids" by Patty Dann. Videocassette release of the c1990 motion picture. Digital video transfer. Formatted to fit TV screen. Rated PG-13.
Summary:
Charlotte (Ryder), is an adolescent girl torn between her blossoming passion for a handsome caretaker (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), who is a determined swimmer, and her mother (Cher), a non-traditional, sexy, flamboyant woman who relocates them to a new town every time she causes a hint of scandal, which is often.
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