A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Cory Finley is a St. Louis-born, Brooklyn-based screenwriter, playwright, and director. Finley wrote and directed the black comedy film Thoroughbreds, a feature film adapted from his play of the same name which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2017. He also directed the true crime dramedy film Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney, which premiered on HBO and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie in 2020. He is a member of the Obie-winning Youngblood playwrights group at Ensemble Studio Theater, has received a commission from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation for playwriting, and was the inaugural recipient of the Gurney Playwrights Fund for his play The Feast at The Flea Theater.
Director:
2018 Thoroughbreds
2019 Bad Education
2023 Landscape with Invisible Hand
Screenplay:
2018 Thoroughbreds
2019 Bad Education
2023 Landscape with Invisible Hand
???? Burning Rainbow Farm
Story:
2018 Sauna
2018 Thoroughbreds
2019 Bad Education
2023 Landscape with Invisible Hand
???? Burning Rainbow Farm
Thanks:
2018 Sauna
2018 Thoroughbreds
2019 Bad Education
2023 Landscape with Invisible Hand
2023 Sometimes I Think About Dying
???? Burning Rainbow Farm
Writer:
2018 Sauna
2018 Thoroughbreds
2019 Bad Education
2023 Landscape with Invisible Hand
2023 Sometimes I Think About Dying
???? Burning Rainbow Farm
Director:
2022 WeCrashed
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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.