A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Mountainside, New Jersey
Laurie Collyer is an American film director. She grew up in Mountainside, New Jersey and attended Oberlin College. She is best known for writing and directing Sherrybaby, for which actress Maggie Gyllenhaal received a Golden Globe nomination. She also directed the film Nuyorican Dream in 1999. She is in development to direct a film based on the story of Julia Butterfly Hill and Luna which is to star Rachel Weisz. Collyer is a graduate of Oberlin College.
Director:
2000 Nuyorican Dream
2006 Sherrybaby
2013 Sunlight Jr.
2018 Furlough
Producer:
2000 Nuyorican Dream
2006 Sherrybaby
2013 Sunlight Jr.
2018 Furlough
Screenplay:
2000 Nuyorican Dream
2006 Sherrybaby
2013 Sunlight Jr.
2017 Story of a Girl
2018 Furlough
Writer:
2000 Nuyorican Dream
2006 Sherrybaby
2011 The Thief
2013 Sunlight Jr.
2017 Story of a Girl
2018 Furlough
Director:
2015 The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
2016 Billions
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
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.