Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Lucky Mr. Peabody...Everybody thought he was DREAMING!

194889 min6.6 / 10

A whimsical mid-century fantasy-romance about a middle-aged man's enchanted encounter with a mermaid, told with light comedy and romantic yearning despite marital complications.

As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that the thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish.

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