A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Born:
September 23, 1961
Steve Barancik, a screenwriter born in Chicago, Illinois on September 23, 1961, made his debut with the screenplay Buffalo Girls, which was later released as The Last Seduction in 1994. The film, featuring the character of Bridget Gregory/Wendy Kroy, a cunning and enigmatic scam artist, premiered as an HBO movie and went on to achieve art house success. Linda Fiorentino's portrayal of the femme fatale earned her notoriety, while Barancik's screenplay was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery/crime screenplay of 1994. In addition to his work in film, Barancik is also the founder and a regular performer in Monolog Cabin, a group of writers who perform comedic personal essays at Club Congress in Tucson, Arizona. He has also created websites dedicated to quality children's books and collecting the experiences of self-published authors. .
Characters:
1999 The Last Seduction II
Screenplay:
1999 The Last Seduction II
2002 No Good Deed
Story:
1999 The Last Seduction II
2002 No Good Deed
2005 Domino
Writer:
1994 The Last Seduction
1999 The Last Seduction II
2002 No Good Deed
2005 Domino
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
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.