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The film is narrated by Charlotte Flax, a quirky and awkward 15-year-old girl living in Oklahoma with her single, eccentric mother, Rachel (whom she calls "Mrs. Flax"), and her sweet 9-year-old sister, Kate. The girls have different fathers—Charlotte is a product of a teenage romance and a shotgun marriage that only lasted about a year and Kate is from an affair with an athlete.

The narration begins in early fall 1963. Just as Rachel's latest fling with her married employer ends, she decides to relocate with Charlotte and Kate once again. This time, they move to a new home near a convent in the small town of Eastport, Massachusetts, where Rachel gets a job as a secretary for a local insurance adjuster. Charlotte has an unusual obsession with Catholicism, with Rachel's strong disapproval and reminder that they are Jewish. She also idolizes the nuns living in the convent. Kate, on the other hand, loves all things swimming and is an avid competitor, apparently getting it from Rachel's Olympic one night stand from which she was conceived.

Charlotte becomes especially interested in Joe Poretti, the 26-year-old handsome caretaker of the convent and local school bus driver, while Rachel falls in love with a local shop owner named Lou Landsky. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Charlotte finds Joe ringing the convent bell and consoles him. However, they begin to kiss and feeling filled with sin she flees. After the encounter, she begins fasting in order to purge her sinful thoughts, but eventually passes out from hunger and the fear of immaculate conception and starts eating again.

Soon fearing that God may be punishing through pregnancy and unable to talk to Rachel about it, Charlotte steals her car and runs away. She stops at the house of a "perfect nuclear family" in New Haven, Connecticut, asking to spend the night with them, telling them her name is Sal Val, and other wild stories, which they don't seem to completely believe. Later on, she is picked up by Lou and taken home after the family reports her, where she immediately receives a harsh scolding from Rachel believing she could have been murdered.

When Rachel calms down, she tells Charlotte that she was worried sick about her safety, and, thinking that it's her fault that she ran away, admits that even though she's not an expert in parenting, she's willing to compromise and try her best to take care of her and Kate. The next day, she makes an appointment at the nearest clinic under the name Joan Arc, where she sees an obstetrician and is told she is still a virgin and therefore can't be pregnant. Relieved, she goes home, dispelled of her assumption that "one kiss can get you pregnant".

At a New Year's Eve costume party sometime after a large fight with Lou, he asks Rachel to marry/move in with him but she declines both, reminding him that he's still married. However, she's not willing to break up with him nor let their relationship progress either. This ends with him calmly leaving in disappointment. She then asks Joe for a ride home, before she wishes him a happy New Year and kisses him. Charlotte sees this and feels that she is trying to steal him away.

The night after the incident, Charlotte dresses up in Rachel's clothes and makeup in an attempt to show that she can be just as appealing as her. She and Kate get drunk on Rachel's jug wine and talk on the porch about Kate's birth. Hearing the convent bell ringing, Charlotte then takes Kate there and tells her that she'll be back. Kate decides to drunkenly collect rocks while Charlotte goes up to the bell tower to find Joe, where they have sex. Unbeknownst to them, Kate falls into a river and almost drowns due to her inebriation, but is saved by the nuns and taken to the hospital.

Outraged at the turn of events, Rachel and Charlotte argue, ending with Rachel slapping Charlotte across the face. This finally leads to them understanding each other as mother and daughter and not just friends. Charlotte convinces Rachel to stay in Eastport for at least another year.

Time passes and Rachel's relationship with Lou continues. Joe moves to California and opens up a plant nursery, but keeps in touch with Charlotte via postcards. She, in turn, has gained a reputation in high school due to her sexual encounter with him and replaces her Catholicism obsession with Greek mythology and a less conservative outlook; Rachel now reminds her that they are not Greek. Kate, having recovered, is swimming again, although the accident has left her hearing sometimes "sounding fuzzy". The film ends with the three of them dancing while setting the table for dinner.

• Cher as Rachel Flax (credited as Mrs. Flax)
• Bob Hoskins as Louis "Lou" Landsky
• Winona Ryder as Charlotte Flax
• Michael Schoeffling as Joseph "Joe" Poretti
• Christina Ricci as Kate Flax
• Caroline McWilliams as Carrie
• Jan Miner as Mother Superior

The role of Charlotte was initially cast with Emily Lloyd. She had begun shooting the film when Cher supposedly made a complaint that she couldn’t play her daughter because she was too fair-haired and Winona Ryder replaced her (Cher and director Benjamin both felt Ryder looked more convincing as her daughter.) Cher was also a fan of Ryder's performance in the film Heathers and wanted to work with her. This statement would be rather ironic given that all of Cher's real-life children are blond/fair, and given that Ryder's real hair color is blonde.

Lloyd sued Orion Pictures Corporation and Mermaid Productions, reaching a settlement on the second day of the trial, 30 July 1991.

This was to have been the American film debut for director Lasse Hallström until he allegedly repeatedly clashed with Cher and was replaced first by Frank Oz and then by Richard Benjamin.

The film currently holds a rating of 73% on Rotten Tomatoes indicating largely positive reviews.

Time Out New York wrote; ‘The film is burdened by curious details and observations, and its preoccupation with all things aquatic (little sister is an ace swimmer, Mom dresses up as a mermaid for New Year's Eve, etc.) is overworked. Characterisation suffers, with Charlotte and Rachel too self-absorbed to engage our sympathies. Crucially, they just aren't funny’.

Vincent Canby from The New York Times wrote; "Mermaids, adapted by the English writer June Roberts from the novel by Patty Dann, is a terribly gentle if wisecracking comedy about the serious business of growing up."