Joanna Merlin Movies

Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions...

A failed New Jersey inventor embarks on a career as a standup comic, turns to drink, and labors to keep his family together.

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East...

Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant...

Malcolm and Lily try to start their lives as they watch Malcolm's grandparents' fall apart.

Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which...

A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.

Drama (and prospective pilot) about the lives of three women who work in the New York City DA's office: one a brilliant prosecutor of high-profile...

Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.

The story of Rosalie Bonnano, the daughter of a powerful New York Mafia boss who married the son of her father's rival, another powerful New York...

An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent.

Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the...

Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a...

A photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he's delaying their marriage deliberately.

A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.

The true story of Terry Jean Moore, a young woman who is imprisoned for seven years on account of a "five-dollar" robbery. While in prison, she gets...