Mermaids (1990) - Dancing in the Kitchen Scene (12/12) | Movieclips

Mermaids movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don’t miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Mrs. Flax (Cher) and the girls dance in the kitchen listening to a Jimmy Soul song. FILM DESCRIPTION: There’s no point in recounting the many production problems and personal hostilities which plagued the filming of Mermaids: the end result is all that matters. Set in the 1960s, the film details the relationship between an unorthodox, unmarried vagabond mother (Cher), and her two daughters. The 15-year-old (Winona Ryder), continually embarrassed by her flamboyant mother, wants to be the world’s greatest Catholic; the nine-year-old (Christina Ricci) would be satisfied with becoming the world’s champion swimmer. Moving with her family to New England, the older daughter falls in love from afar with the groundskeeper (Michael Schoeffling) from a nearby convent, while Mom takes up with a lonely salesman (Bob Hoskins). Mer