Joanna Merlin
3 titles
Filmography
3 results

Active Adults
(2017)Recent college grads Malcolm and Lily quickly realize how difficult making it in New York City can be. When neither is able to land a job, they move in with Malcolm's grandparents in a suburban “active adult” community. Malcolm is excited to live with the couple he aspires to emulate, but Lily quickly sees the cracks starting to form in their relationship. Desperate to restore his grandparents’ marriage to his nostalgic memory of them, Malcolm elects to stay with them just as Lily embraces a job in the city. With the future of both relationships up in the air, the two couples are surprised to discover there are many parallels between their situations.

Weddings and Babies
(1960)A work of artistic finesse and great emotional candor by celebrated independent filmmaker Morris Engel, “Weddings and Babies” is a bittersweet tale of love, hope and sacrifice, staged to perfection amid the sidewalks, street festivals and storefront apartments of New York's Little Italy. A photographer resists commitment with a model who yearns for a child of her own.

City of Angels
(1998)Love story between a female doctor and a heavenly angel. When the angel finds out that he can be seen by the doctor, he longs to give up his immortality to become human.