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1984 · 1h 50m · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Splash

Directed byRon Howard
TMDB
6.3
1.54K votes
Metacritic
71
critics
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
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Box office
$69.8M
6.3x its $11M budget
Released Mar 9, 1984 by The Walt Disney Company and Touchstone Pictures
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Critics (Metacritic)71
Audience (TMDB x 10)63

Critics liked it more than audiences did, by 8 points.

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Director
Ron Howard
Cinematography
Donald Peterman
1 nominations, 0 wins

Awards record

  • Best Original Screenplay · Academy Awards 1985
    Screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman; Screen Story by Bruce Jay Friedman; Based on a story by Brian Grazer
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