Susan McMartin

Susan McMartin is an American screenwriter and producer for film and television. She wrote the screenplay of the 2016 film Mr. Church, which is autobiographical. She also co-wrote the screenplay of the 2019 film After. Her television work includes Two and a Half Menand Mom. She also wrote the book Understanding the Fall. Mr. Church was written from her life experiences. Samuel L. Jackson was initially cast as the family friend and cook who helped raise her. McMartin worked as a writer and producer on the CBS television series Mom and as a writer for Two and a Half Men. A single mom, she recounted her financial struggles as an aspiring screenwriter in Hollywood. KCET interviewed her. In 2024, she was working with Chuck Lorre on a program for Netflix. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan McMartin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Son in Law

Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.

Release Date: 1993-07-02

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 285

Upper Cut

Follows Carrie White, known as the "First Lady of Hairdressing", whose glamorous facade, her world was in perpetual disarray.

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Regretting You

A shocking car wreck that takes the lives of two family members unlocks a series of secrets, lies and regrets, as the people left behind can't move forward without looking at the past.

Release Date: 2025-10-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

After

Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa's guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious and brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself -- and what she wants out of life.

Release Date: 2019-04-11

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 8331

Mr. Church

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.

Release Date: 2016-09-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 477

Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart

The life story of R&B singer-songwriter and producer, Toni Braxton.

Release Date: 2016-01-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 24

Mom

Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now back in Christy's life and eager to share passive-aggressive insights into her daughter's many mistakes.

Release Date: 2013-09-23

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Episode Count: 43

Vote Count: 589

Gary Unmarried

A recently divorced couple shares custody of their two children while starting new relationships.

Release Date: 2008-09-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 41

Californication

A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.

Release Date: 2007-08-13

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1168

Two and a Half Men

A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.

Release Date: 2003-09-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 3381

Leanne

Leanne's life is upended when her husband of 33 years leaves her for another woman. Starting over when you’re a grandmother and in menopause isn’t exactly what she had in mind, but with the help of her family, she will navigate this new chapter with grace, dignity and jello salad.

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer