John Merriman Movies

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

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.

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

Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth - high school....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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...

A depressed man puts off an important task.

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

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

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

When perpetually disgruntled twentysomething Hunter Reeves is fired from a chain bookstore, his best chance at regaining some semblance of financial...

A resident at a mental health facility plots his escape.