A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Born:
August 2, 1947
Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright and a staff writer for The New Yorker. His 2006 history of al-Qaeda, “The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” was on the New York Times bestseller list for eight weeks, was nominated for the National Book Award and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, among other honors. Wright co-wrote the 1998 film “The Siege,” which depicts events eerily similar to those occurring in the U.S. after 9/11. In 2006, his one-man play “My Trip to al-Qaeda,” based on the book, enjoyed a sold-out, six-week run in Soho. Wright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Co-Producer:
2000 Noriega: God's Favorite
Executive Producer:
2000 Noriega: God's Favorite
2020 Kingdom of Silence
Novel:
2000 Noriega: God's Favorite
2015 Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2020 Kingdom of Silence
Producer:
2000 Noriega: God's Favorite
2015 Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2020 Kingdom of Silence
Screenplay:
1998 The Siege
2000 Noriega: God's Favorite
2015 Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2020 Kingdom of Silence
Writer:
1996 Forgotten Sins
1998 The Siege
2000 Noriega: God's Favorite
2015 Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2020 Kingdom of Silence
Book:
2018 The Looming Tower
Creator:
2018 The Looming Tower
Executive Producer:
2018 The Looming Tower
2024 God Save Texas
Story:
2018 The Looming Tower
2024 God Save Texas
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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.