Splash [20th Anniversary Edition]

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (Theatre Wide Screen)
• Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Subtitle: Spanish, English
• Features:
  • cc "Making a Splash": Babaloo Mandel, Brain Grazer, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Lowell Ganz, Ron Howard, and Tom Hanks reminisce on making the film
  • Commentary by director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer, and writers Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel (with introduction and closing by Ron Howard)
  • Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah audition tapes with introductions by Ron Howard

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Nominated Best Original Screenplay - 1984 (Babaloo Mandel, Brian Grazer, Lowell Ganz, Bruce Jay Friedman)

• Hollywood Foreign Press Association

•     Nominated Best Picture - Musical or Comedy - 1984

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Tom Hanks - Allen Bauer
       Daryl Hannah - Madison
       John Candy - Freddie Bauer
       Eugene Levy - Walter Kornbluth
       Dody Goodman - Mrs. Stimler

• Director:

  Ron Howard

• Producer:

  Brian Grazer

• Screen Story:

  Brian Grazer

• Screenwriter:

  Bruce Jay Friedman, Lowell Ganz, Brian Grazer, Babaloo Mandel

• Composer (Music Score):

  Lee Holdridge

• Songwriter:

  Rita Coolidge, Lee Holdridge, Will Jennings

• Editor:

  Daniel Hanley, Michael Hill

• Production Designer:

  Jack T. Collis, Louis Mann

• Art Director:

  John Mansbridge

REVIEWS:

• {#Splash}, {$Ron Howard}'s bubbly romantic comedy fairy tale, marks {$Tom Hanks} at his early screwball best, as light and buoyant then as he has since become serious and stately. In one of his first prominent film roles, Hanks effectively plays the loosey-goosey romantic idealist Allen Bauer. {$Darryl Hannah} brings touching innocence to the role of the adult mermaid, hiding her identity from Bauer by never allowing her legs to get wet with saltwater -- which would transform them into her telltale fin. There are a lot of cute, (forgive the pun) fish-out-of-water set pieces in New York, the most farfetched of which is Hannah's character learning English after a day of watching TV at Bloomingdale's. While Hanks is quite funny, and sometimes as charmingly naïve and hopeful as his best moments in {#Big}, the film's considerable laughs belong mostly to {$John Candy} and {$Eugene Levy}. Candy plays his typical loveable lout, a jokester with soul, and Levy is riotous as the oft-injured scientist villain, whose apropos refrain ("What a week I'm having!") is supported by a chain of slapstick scenarios that only Levy could play with such goofy frustration. At the helm, Howard strikes a sweet balance between humor and sentiment in one of the earliest of a string of directorial successes. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide
• Splash, Ron Howard's bubbly romantic comedy fairy tale, marks Tom Hanks at his early screwball best, as light and buoyant then as he has since become serious and stately. In one of his first prominent film roles, Hanks effectively plays the loosey-goosey romantic idealist Allen Bauer. Darryl Hannah brings touching innocence to the role of the adult mermaid, hiding her identity from Bauer by never allowing her legs to get wet with saltwater -- which would transform them into her telltale fin. There are a lot of cute, (forgive the pun) fish-out-of-water set pieces in New York, the most farfetched of which is Hannah's character learning English after a day of watching TV at Bloomingdale's. While Hanks is quite funny, and sometimes as charmingly naïve and hopeful as his best moments in Big, the film's considerable laughs belong mostly to John Candy and Eugene Levy. Candy plays his typical loveable lout, a jokester with soul, and Levy is riotous as the oft-injured scientist villain, whose apropos refrain ("What a week I'm having!") is supported by a chain of slapstick scenarios that only Levy could play with such goofy frustration. At the helm, Howard strikes a sweet balance between humor and sentiment in one of the earliest of a string of directorial successes. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide

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