John Merriman Movies

Allie moves to Texas and embraces the slower pace of life and gun culture. She tries to maintain healthy relationships as the weapons she uses to protect herself lead her to a paranoid withdrawal from life.

Working at a movie theater is fun, and that's why Mason, Dennis, and Gabe have done it for years. But, those years of neglecting the world outside the theater are finally catching up to them. Now, they have to make a decision: start on the long, hard path to maturity or stay at the theater, where...

Openly gay Ernesto and closeted Gabe grapple with the sad tribulations of being gay in a small, working-class Texas town

Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that she can’t bring herself to pursue, Ellie feels detached from her life. When she learns that her estranged alcoholic father has died, her world is...

A man fakes his death. At his funeral he discovers he has a son and attempts to find him.

Human lives grappling with all the flavors of exstential despair intersect in a deadpan collage of comic suffering.

After his girlfriend dumps him at a New Year's Eve party, Bill and his friends drive to an off-season beach town to win her back.

Set on the eve of Flatland's first mission into their 'outer-space,' the story presents the intriguing mysteries of triangles with angle sums greater than 180 degrees and flipping into dimensions that are literally out of this world.

Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth - high school. When her obsession with school bad boy Ricky gets out of hand, her mother sends her to an emotional treatment center to recover. She has to travel...

Children and nature shine in this melancholy love story about Johnny, a male nanny who tries to win back his girlfriend after she takes up with a man who looks just like him. The film tracks the growth of the relationship over four seasons in New England, as Johnny’s emotional problems sabotage...

Two black men on a fishing trip stumble across the body of a dead white man and debate what to do with it.

A group of coworkers buy a piano at a yard sale for a friend in need.

After being dumped and fired on the same day, Marie, a maid, gets a job cleaning up after an overworked businessman and the aggressively messy roommate he’s forgotten about, sending her into a surreal world of candy, insult comics, and pretend marriages.

A young salesman from the city sells solar panels to a rural community, only to realize his boss supplied faulty products. As installations fail, he faces the community's mistrust and the collapse of his business. He must now fix the situation before everything falls apart.

A meeting in a therapist's waiting room goes horribly wrong.

A depressed man puts off an important task.

An awkward teenager wrestles with whether or not to let her boyfriend go up her shirt.

A woman takes part in a sleep study to determine why she is not sleeping well. Winner of the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival.

A resident at a mental health facility plots his escape.

A washed-up YouTube star blackmails an old rival in an attempt to reclaim her fame. But when things go awry, she finds herself ensnared by a drug trafficking ring. As Cecilia spirals out of control, she’s forced to confront her true place in society.