A movie pulling in a perfect, 100% Rotten Tomatoes score is a rare thing these days. As rare, you might say, as finding a mythical sea creature bobbing off a Floridian marina – and yet, with Mermaid, Fallout star Johnny Pemberton manages to do both.
Written and directed by Tyler Cornack, the surreal horror-comedy is reminiscent of a slice-of-life Sean Baker flick, as it drops us into the world of Doug Nelson, a drug-addled dude who works at a neon-lit bar that's essentially a strip club meets Seaworld. He knows all there is to know about salt-water fish. Humans? Well, they're a little trickier for him to work out. After he's unceremoniously sacked for putting poems in his unrequited work crush's locker, Doug's life starts to unravel fast; his dealer, played by a terrifically funny, way-too-tanned Robert Patrick, is looking to collect an overdue $3,000 bill while his daughter's mother (Julia Larson) is desperate for him to be a more present father.
