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A mermaid is ripped from the ocean by a fishing crew only to be tortured and to have her tail cut off. A seemingly helpful stranger intervenes, but then locks her away in an institution for mentally disturbed young women, where no one believes she is a mermaid. With no way out, she is forced to count on her survival instincts, and fight for her life at all costs.

A man attempts to reconnect with a woman from his past; telling the story of how the two were whimsical teen lovers, married for the three days in 1989.

After a small-town film festival where the main characters, Mitch, Maynard and Cherie win absolutely nothing, both men wind up in jail for having stolen the Matricher Falls 3rd Annual Film Festival's "Grand Jury Ladle Prize" and Cherie joins up with a shady distribution company. After she becomes an investor, the two shady distributors get her to invest everything she owns in It's the Gravy Unlimited Film Distribution Company Unlimited (ITGU). Soon after she forms her partnership with Stankey and Kahn, the pair goes out of town, leaving Cherie with all their liabilities, and no assets. After she springs Maynard out of jail, the two mobilize some town folk to help them save the failing distribution company in an attempt to get whole.

A story about a burned-out sketch comedy director who quits a comedy troupe only to return to the theater for another show and encounters the same problems with the cast. This film is a Prequel to this Show Can’t Go On