If Claire and Hailey can help Aquamarine woo a hunky lifeguard (Jake McDorman) - and get him to say “I love you!” - the mermaid will grant the girls a wish. Not to worry, though: Claire and Hailey are willing to share all they’ve learned about flirty behavior and feminine wiles from the pages of glossy teen-skewing magazines.įirst-time feature helmer Elizabeth Allen demonstrates a light touch and savvy comic chops while smoothly steering the plot toward a beat-the-clock set-up. (If she gets wet, however, or stays out past sunset, the tail returns.) But when it comes to mastering the finer points of reeling in a man, the mermaid is out at sea. Much like the finny femme played so memorably by Daryl Hannah in Ron Howard’s “Splash” (1984), Aquamarine is quite capable of sprouting lovely legs to replace her scaly tail. Hence, there’s an understandable urgency to her trolling for a desirable human who might prove her right and pledge his troth.
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If she can’t make Dad see love is real, Aquamarine will be forced into arranged marriage a few days hence with an unappealing merman. She’s especially eager to know about love, a state of grace that her father insists is entirely mythical. Fortuitously, their prayers appear to be answered when a tidal wave triggered by a sudden storm washes a mermaid into the beach club’s swimming pool.Īquamarine (Sara Paxton of NBC’s “Darcy’s Wild Life”) is a blonde, beautiful and bubbly 18-year-old who wants to learn about the habits of surface dwellers.
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Nearly friendless except for each other, the girls literally pray for a miracle to keep them together. Claire’s marine-biologist mom has landed a plum assignment in Australia - far, far away from their current home in a Florida coastal community where Hailey’s grandparents operate an invitingly retro beach club. Working from a novel by Alice Hoffman (“Practical Magic”), scripters John Quaintance and Jessica Bendinger begin their fish-out-of-water scenario by introing 13-year-old best buddies Claire (Emma Roberts of Nickelodeon’s “Unfabulous”) and Hailey (Joanne “JoJo” Levesque) at summer’s end, less than a week before they will be forced to separate.