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A warm, offbeat coming-of-age dramedy with a strong trio of performances, especially Cher and Winona Ryder. Its mix of family chaos, adolescent longing, and small-town texture gives it a distinct early-90s charm, even when the tonal shifts get messy.
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Fri · 1h 50m
Director: Richard Benjamin
Starring: Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder
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.
Richard Benjamin
Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder
A warm, offbeat coming-of-age dramedy with a strong trio of performances, especially Cher and Winona Ryder. Its mix of family chaos, adolescent longing, and small-town texture gives it a distinct early-90s charm, even when the tonal shifts get messy.
Mermaids is a scrappy, emotionally mixed family dramedy that lives on personality. Cher gives the movie its voltage as a glamorous, impulsive mother trying to keep life moving, while Winona Ryder grounds it with wounded teenage intensity. Christina Ricci adds a sharp comic edge that helps the family feel lived-in rather than neatly written.
mia lee vicino (4★) · 6901 likes
“Oh, I’m gonna burn in hell for sure. He’s talking about his poor dead mother and I can’t stop wishing his hands were unbuttoning my dress.”
monique 🕵🏼♀️ (4.5★) · 6594 likes
cher, winona ryder, and christina ricci as a family? the coven is complete!!!!
Sally Jane Black (5★) · 4438 likes
All movies should include Winona Ryder's internal monologue.
olivia (2.5★) · 4045 likes
gilmore girls on crack
gracie ⚝ (5★) · 3652 likes
charlotte would have loved wattpad
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mother-daughter relationships, coming of age, family instability, small-town life, first love, female adolescence, emotional chaos, self-acceptance
coming-of-age, family dramedy, mother-daughter, small-town, bittersweet, 1990s, female-led, romance, quirky, melancholy