List of the best Joanna Merlin movies: Baby, It's You(1983), Active Adults(2017), Two Bits(1995), City of Angels(1998), Mystic Pizza(1988), Soup for One(1982), Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage(1993), The Wackness(2008), Black and Blue(1999), The Invasion(2007) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
1983
105 Minutes
Mrs. Rosen
Rosanna Arquette Vincent Spano Joanna Merlin Jack Davidson Nick Ferrari Dolores Messina Leora Dana Bill Raymond Sam McMurray Liane Curtis Claudia Sherman
An aspiring lounge singer (Vincent Spano) romances a rich girl (Rosanna Arquette) in 1960s New Jersey.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
80 Minutes
Miriam
Jonathan Rosen Lola Kirke Dominic Chianese Joanna Merlin Rosie Perez Ellen Barkin Scott Cohen Merwin Goldsmith Sondra James Audrey Turner Harold Hoffman
Malcolm and Lily try to start their lives as they watch Malcolm's grandparents' fall apart.
Drama
USA
1995
85 Minutes
Guendolina
Jerry Barone Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Al Pacino Joe Grifasi Joanna Merlin Andy Romano Ron McLarty Patrick Borriello Donna Mitchell Mary Lou Rosato Rosemary DeAngelis
boy child grandfather family family member charming emotional heartwarming melodramatic moving sad united states city suburb slum movie theater economic crisis family life family tragedy family secrets
Gennaro lives with his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter. But grandpa's not ready to die, he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.
Romance
USA|Germany
1998
117 Minutes
Teresa Messinger
Nicolas Cage Meg Ryan Andre Braugher Dennis Franz Colm Feore Robin Bartlett Joanna Merlin Sarah Dampf
angel doctor friend dreamy melodramatic mushy los angeles hospital household afterlife death friendship love transformation 1990s
An angel on Earth, a doctor unable to believe, a patient with a secret, a love story made in Heaven.
Romance
USA
1988
102 Minutes
Mrs. Arujo
Julia Roberts Annabeth Gish Lili Taylor Vincent D'Onofrio William R. Moses Adam Storke Conchata Ferrell Joanna Merlin Geraldine Leer Porscha Radcliffe
teenager waitress friend boyfriend fiancé mother emotional heartwarming quirky amusing restaurant new england house small town connecticut home love commitment teen angst class conflict
Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.
Romance
USA
1982
87 Minutes
Allan's Mother
Saul Rubinek Marcia Strassman Gerrit Graham Teddy Pendergrass Richard Libertini Andrea Martin Mordecai Lawner Lewis J. Stadlen Joanna Merlin Christine Baranski Maury Chaykin
single man television producer dream girl friend amusing offbeat new york city television studio restaurant dating sex romance loneliness city life unrequited love quest love 1980s
When Allan meets Maria he is sure he has found the perfect woman for him but she's not interested. He persists, she relents, they begin dating. Allan then starts to second guess what he thought he wanted.
Drama
1993
192 Minutes
Rose Profaci
Eric Roberts Nancy McKeon Ben Gazzara Dylan Baker Alex Rocco Joe Petruzzi Phyllis Lyons Kimber Riddle Joanna Merlin Tomas Milian
Based on the case of man (Eric Roberts) and woman (Nancy McKeon) whose wedding united their powerful New York crime families.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
2008
110 Minutes
Ben Kingsley Josh Peck Famke Janssen Olivia Thirlby Mary-Kate Olsen Jane Adams Cliff "Method Man" Smith Aaron Yoo Talia Balsam David Wohl Bob Dishy
therapist drug dealer girl daughter amusing charming emotional new york city psychiatrist's office midlife crisis love drugs coming of age marital problems quest love growing up 1990s
It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.
Drama
1999
97 Minutes
Mary Stuart Masterson Anthony LaPaglia Will Rothhaar Sam Robards Beau Starr Sabrina Grdevich Elizabeth Brown Allegra Fulton Victoria Snow Conrad Dunn Jake Goldsbie
housewife police officer son coach tense uneasy new york city florida spousal abuse kidnapping broken home mother/child relationship pursuit rescue 1990s
After being beaten severely by her policeman husband (Anthony LaPaglia), a woman (Mary Stuart Masterson) flees with her son (Will Rothhaar) and changes their identity.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Australia
2007
99 Minutes
Nicole Kidman Daniel Craig Jeremy Northam Jeffrey Wright Veronica Cartwright Josef Sommer Celia Weston Roger Rees Eric Benjamin Susan Floyd Stephanie Berry
psychologist colleague doctor ex-husband biologist son gripping tense frightening laboratory space shuttle washington, d.c. mutation alien invasion saving the world virus race against time supernatural quest mystery
As a Washington, D.C. psychiatrist unearths the origin of an alien epidemic, she also discovers her son might be the only way it can be stopped.