![]() ![]() It’s about real issues: a mother who cuts and runs at the slightest problem a decent man who wants to get closer to this family but can’t because of their mother’s stony protectiveness neat kids who yearn for meat loaf and normalcy and get. “Mermaids” begins to be nice but wearing, the interesting guest you can’t get to sit down and take off the clown suit. Flax to mutter in passing, “Charlotte, we’re Jewish.” She’s now leaning heavily toward becoming a nun. Somehow, either in a desperate bid for continuity or after too much “Dominique, nique, nique” by the Singing Nun on television-this is 1963-Charlotte has discovered Jesus and all his martyred saints. Flax, “Life is change and death is dwelling on the past or staying in one place too long.” After 18 such moves, Charlotte is a whiz at re-creating her bedroom over and over again exactly, in state after state. Get her into any emotional situation she can’t control and she picks up her kids and bolts. Mom (Cher), whom her 15-year-old daughter, Charlotte (Winona Ryder), calls Mrs. The rest of the time it’s family relationship melodrama about a relentlessly unconventional family. ![]() Well, most of the trouble with “Mermaids” (selected theaters) is when it gets icky. ![]() And anyone who’s ever had fish knows about ich, the scourge of the fish tank. We all know about mermaids: part woman, part fish. ![]()
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