The musical was budgeted at $703,000 (estimated), mostly because the three production numbers that comprisedThe musical was budgeted at $703,000 (estimated), mostly because the three production numbers that comprised the last 30 minutes of the film each cost about $10,000/minute, and each of them lasted at least 12 minutes (the length of a reel of film).Plot SynopsisA voice-over narration introduces the locale and premise of the film:The island of Manhattan derives its name from its earliest inhabitants - the Manhattan Indians."Afterwards, Alice looked at the clippings that Mark had obtained, and focused on one about Amanda Krueger, Freddy"s distraught nun-mother, who had not committed suicide by hanging after Krueger"s trial (as the newspapers reported), but spent the remainder of her life in an asylum.Blackbeard"s crew arrived first at Whitecap Bay, searching for a mermaid from which they would need a single tear.[The same flashback plot device, told by a dead man in voice-over, was copied byAmerican Beauty (1999).Detail
