

She jumps in the water when the troops close in on them. Madison warns him that if he comes to live in the sea, he cannot return to land. Madison tells Allen that he can survive underwater as long as he is with her, causing Allen to realize that she was the girl he had met underwater as a child. Despite being pursued, Allen and Madison make it to New York Harbor. Freddie decides to be arrested in Allen's place, while Kornbluth unsuccessfully tries to stop United States troops from catching the couple.

Impersonating Swedish scientists, Allen, Freddie, and Kornbluth enter the lab and smuggle Madison outside. Realizing that he still loves Madison, Allen confronts the guilt-ridden Kornbluth, who having been rejected by his colleagues despite his discovery, agrees to help rescue her. As Madison withers away in captivity, Kornbluth learns that the scientists are planning to dissect her causing him to regret his actions, for he just wanted to prove that he wasn’t crazy rather than cause actual harm.Īllen is shocked by Madison's secret and rejects her, but when he voices his disillusionment to his brother, Freddie lashes out at him, reminding Allen how happy he was with her. Madison is seized by government agents and taken to a secret lab, headed by Kornbluth's cold-hearted rival Dr. Finally, he infiltrates the dignitary dinner, splashing Madison with a hose and successfully unmasking her identity. His first attempts are unsuccessful, and Kornbluth ends up with multiple injuries. Meanwhile, Kornbluth, realizing that the naked woman at Liberty Island was the mermaid he encountered, pursues the couple, trying to expose her as a mermaid by splashing her with water. After some contemplation, Madison returns to Allen and agrees to marry him, with the added promise of telling him the truth about herself after an upcoming dignitary dinner to welcome the President. Allen proposes to Madison, but she declines and runs away. Despite Madison's occasionally outlandish behavior, she and Allen fall in love. She tells Allen that she will be in New York for "six fun-filled days until the moon is full" unable to return home if she stays any longer. Unable to say her real name in human language, she selects "Madison" from a Madison Avenue sign.
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She learns how to speak English from watching television, and is eager to explore the city. Using information from Allen’s wallet, the police contact him and the mysterious girl is released into his care. She comes ashore naked at the Statue of Liberty and is arrested for indecent exposure. The mermaid finds Allen's wallet, and uses a sunken ship’s charts to locate New York. While swimming underwater, she is sighted by Kornbluth. After kissing him, she dives into the sea, where she transforms into a mermaid. He wakes up on a beach, in the presence of a beautiful naked woman who is unable to talk. When his motorboat malfunctions, Allen falls into the sea and is knocked unconscious his wallet drops onto the coral below. Depressed after his latest breakup, Allen returns to Cape Cod, where he encounters eccentric scientist Dr. Through the years, Allen’s relationships have failed as he subconsciously seeks the connection he felt with the mysterious girl. In 1984, Allen is now co-owner of a wholesale fruit and vegetable business in New York City with his womanizing older brother Freddie. Since no one else saw the girl, Allen comes to believe the encounter was a near-death hallucination. However, Allen is rescued and pulled back to the surface, and the two are separated. In the ocean, he encounters a young girl and inexplicably finds himself able to breathe underwater. Allen is fascinated by something below the surface and jumps overboard. In 1964, eight-year-old Allen Bauer and his family are taking a boat tour at Cape Cod. Splash was critically and commercially successful, earning over $69 million on an $11 million budget, and received praise for the acting, humor, and chemistry between Hanks and Hannah.

Splash received a PG-rating for some profanity and brief nudity. The film is notable for being the first film released by Touchstone Pictures, a film label created by Walt Disney Studios that same year in an effort to release films targeted at adult audiences, with mature content not appropriate for the studio's flagship Walt Disney Pictures banner. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It involves a young man who falls in love with a mysterious woman who is secretly a mermaid. Splash is a 1984 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, and Bruce Jay Friedman, and a story by Friedman and producer Brian Grazer, and starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, and Eugene Levy.
