Splash (1984 Ron Howard)

Brian Grazer - better known as an incredibly productive film producer - came up with the story, that was then written as a 'screen story' by Bruce Jay Friedman, and then the screenplay was written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel and Friedman. Sounds complicated, but actually only four writers.

Still don't love mermaid story which is one of Mark Kermode's favourite films - that tells you a lot about the man that wrote and presented a show about rom coms and chose to slag off just one film - Elizabethtown. I think both of these things tell us a lot about Mark Kermode, namely that he's not to be trusted.

However it was better than I remembered, particularly in the non mermaid stuff with Hanks and Candy (though story should have shown how Candy had become responsible and taken care of the business), and is quite funny the endless ways they have of disguising Daryl Hannah's breasts.

But what was really interesting about it was the thought that The Shape of Water is actually a remake of this! It is!

It's quite funny.

The latest in my series of extremely obscure screen shots