A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
June 19, 2023
Original Title:
Spotlight
Genres:
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 20
Spotlight is a film following the mind and reality of Graciela, a self-conscious 20 year-old teenager. As she strangely moves back and forth from the confines of her home to the claustrophobic public jeepney, she gets overwhelmed by her perceived paradox—of being invisible to one and too visible to others. Driven by anxiety, she starts moving to what she believes is the ideal rhythm of the world, forging herself in a manner that she believes to be acceptable.
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.