Heironymus Merkin, the most talented movie star who ever sang, danced and loved girls, girls, girls.
Heironymus Merkin is an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a seashore in front of his two toddlers and aged mother. Merkin's promiscuous relationships with women are explored, particularly Polyester Poontang and the adolescent Mercy Humppe. Merkin is constantly surrounded by a Satan-like procurer, Goodtime Eddie Filth, and an angelic 'Presence' who interrupts Merkin's biography with cryptic Borscht Belt-level jokes to denote births and deaths in Merkin's life. Newley periodically steps out of character to complain about his 'Merkin' role with an unseen director, two screenwriters, the film's producers and a trio of blasé movie critics who are turned off by the story's eroticism and lack of plot.
Anthony Newley
Director, Writer
Herman Raucher
Writer
Anthony Newley
Heironymous Merkin
Joan Collins
Polyester Poontang
Bruce Forsyth
Uncle Limelight
Milton Berle
Goodtime Eddie Filth
Stubby Kaye
Fat Writer
George Jessel
The Presence
Connie Kreski
Mercy Humppe
Alexander Newley
Thaxted
Tara Newley
Thumbelina
Love Happy58%
Bo Burnham: Make Happy80%
Soul Men61%
A Mighty Wind67%
Babes in Arms64%
Marc Maron: End Times Fun68%
Footlight Parade68%
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie62%
Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words72%
The After Party61%
Thunderstruck61%
Back to the Beach59%
Bo Burnham: What.78%
A Song Is Born64%
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping65%
Ricky Gervais: Mortality70%
Taking Care of Business63%
Goltzius & the Pelican Company61%
Louis C.K.: Hilarious78%
Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh71%
