Joanna Merlin Movies

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it...

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

Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career...

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...

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

Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends, but first he must find his...

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.

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...

It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on...

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...

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...

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

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

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