This film is based on "A Miracle of Mermaids," an article from the September 1995 issue of Reader's Digest. It takes several liberties from the actual event for legal and dramatic purposes. The most notable of these is the fact that, in real life, the image on the balloon was of none other than Ariel from Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989).
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