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Love theme from Ron Howard's "SPLASH", the romantic comedy that took the box-office by surprise in 1984, starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah.
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Listen to all 2 songs from the Splash soundtrack, playlist, ost and score.
Love Came For Me. Written by Lee Holdridge and Will Jennings. Performed by Rita Coolidge. Wooly Bully. Written by Domingo Samudio. Performed by Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs. She Works Hard for the Money. Written by Donna Summer and Michael Omartian. Performed by Donna Summer.
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As a boy, Allen Bauer, who doesn't know how to swim, leaps into the water off Cape Cod after something only he can see. He is rescued from drowning by a young mermaid, and an instant connection forms between them. When his parents retrieve him, no one sees her, who weeps at the loss of her new friend before departing. Allen comes to believe the enc...
Daryl Hannah as MadisonScreenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel both make cameo appearances in the film. Ganz plays Stan, the tour guide, in the scene set at the Statue of Liberty. Mandel plays the man in charge of ice skate rentals who tackles Tom Hanks' character when he tries to run out with his skates still on. Ron Howard's father, actor Rance Howard, can be seen...
According to the documentary on the Splash: 20th Anniversary Edition DVD in 2004, producer Brian Grazer had pitched the film to numerous studios but was turned down repeatedly until The Walt Disney Company, then headed by Ron Miller, agreed to produce the film. An issue at the time of production was the competition between Splash and another announ...
Critical reaction
The movie was a huge success: made with a USD $8 million budget, the movie grossed $6,174,059 on its opening weekend and ended up grossing $69,821,334 in the U.S. alone. The movie was well received by critics and is considered by many as one of the best films of 1984. It earned a 92% "Fresh" rating from the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes.However, the audience panned it with just 52% liking it on Rotten Tomatoes and a 6.2 IMDb rating.
Awards
Award wins: 1. Saturn Award for Best Actress - Daryl Hannah 2. National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay - Bruce Jay Friedman, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel Award nominations: 1. Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay - Bruce Jay Friedman, Lowell Ganz, Brian Grazer, Babaloo Mandel 2. Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 3. Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay - Bruce Jay Friedman, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel 4. Satur...
An official fourteen track soundtrack for the film was released on both Vinyl LP and Cassette in the UK by Cherry Lane Records Ltd in 1984. Both have been out of print for many years. The catalogue numbers for these releases were PIPLP 710 and ZCPIP 710 respectively. In 2000 the soundtrack was released on a twenty six track CD in the U.S. by Super ...
The 1994 Hong Kong movie, Mermaid Got Married, was based on this film. The plot involved a mermaid who travels onto land and falls in love with a human man.The Italian Mickey Mouse comic Topolino e la pesca a sorpresa, first published in Paperino Mese 130, is based on the film's plot.The most famous lyric, of course, is Brandi Chastain's opening verse: Brandi Chastain, do it again / She used to play soccer / Now she's hittin' the water. "We realized we were on to...
Rita Coolidge, fresh from singing the Bond theme to Octopussy (“All Time High”) performed the track which appears during the closing credits, “Love Came For Me” aka The Love Theme from Splash.
The soundtrack to the classic Tom Hanks/Daryl Hannah romantic mermaid comedy Splash. Although “Woolly Bully” and “She Works Hard For The Money” appeared in the movie, they are not on the...
