I loved it, and was too young to grasp the problematic nature of the central plot point - a 15 year old girl who falls in love with a 28 year old man.a man who returns her affections.
But it was a film whose central character was a girl who wasn't blonde or perky or popular, in a delightful turn by Winona Ryder a girl who read books and had unusual interests and never went to the mall. Not that Mermaids, a coming of age story set in a small Massachusetts* town in 1963, is expressly a teen movie the wonderful performances of Cher and Bob Hoskins make it so much more.
By the time Clueless was released, I was way too depressed for anything that looked as blithe as the poster suggested - though I did watch, and love, the film several years later, then many times since.īut in the early 1990s, it was slim pickings. The success of Clueless lead to an explosion in the release of teen movies, from sexploitation ( American Pie) to horror ( Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer) then cheerleaders ( Bring It On) and mean girls (one mean girl in Cruel Intentions, then a whole eponymous film of them). Teenage films were pretty much dead as a genre between the John Hughes/Molly Ringwald era of the 1980s and the release of Clueless in 1995. The film Mermaids meant a lot to me in my early teens, as I guess it did to a lot of women of my generation.
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