A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Born:
July 23, 1968
Maya Forbes (born July 23, 1968) is an American screenwriter and television producer. She made her debut as a film director with Infinitely Polar Bear (2014). Her other writing credits include the screenplay of The Rocker (2008) and many episodes of The Larry Sanders Show. She was a co-executive producer of The Larry Sanders Show in its later seasons and executive producer of the sitcom The Naked Truth. Forbes received Emmy and WGA Award nominations for her work on The Larry Sanders Show.
Director:
2014 Infinitely Polar Bear
2017 The Polka King
2022 The Good House
Screenplay:
2008 The Rocker
2009 Monsters vs Aliens
2012 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
2014 Infinitely Polar Bear
2017 A Dog's Purpose
2017 The Polka King
2019 A Dog's Journey
2020 Trolls World Tour
2022 The Good House
Thanks:
2008 The Rocker
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 Monsters vs Aliens
2012 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
2014 Infinitely Polar Bear
2017 A Dog's Purpose
2017 The Polka King
2019 A Dog's Journey
2020 Trolls World Tour
2022 The Good House
Writer:
2004 Seeing Other People
2008 The Rocker
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 Monsters vs Aliens
2012 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
2014 Infinitely Polar Bear
2017 A Dog's Purpose
2017 The Polka King
2019 A Dog's Journey
2020 Trolls World Tour
2022 The Good House
Producer:
1992 The Larry Sanders Show
Writer:
1992 The Larry Sanders Show
2016 American Crime Story
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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.