Merrit Malloy

Valentine

A feisty widow falls in love with a zestful widower in a retirement community, much to the disapproval of her married daughter.

The Comedy Company

An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.

Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This

The unfulfilled dreams of his parents and the tensions created at home cause life to become a nightmare for a youngster who seeks release in a withdrawal to his own world.

Special Olympics

A widowed father struggles to hold together his family of three teenagers, one of whom is intellectually challenged and enrolled in a state school for "special" children where he finds fulfillment in his love of sports, emulating his older, athletic brother.

Forever

Romantic drama about a teenage girl's first love and the perennial adolescent dilemma of whether to give herself to him in order to hang on to him. Based on the novel by Judy Blume.