A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
January 1, 2016
Original Title:
Umut Apartmanı
Genres:
Drama | Family
Production Countries:
Turkey
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Arif lost his father Ozan before he could get to know him and grew up without a father. He lives with his mother Makbule in the neighborhood where he was born, far from the city center, and has a childish crush on his neighbor Arzu, who is much older than him. The shy boy begins writing letters to Arzu. The return of his grandfather İhsan, who had left them years ago, suddenly turns the young boy's life upside down. İhsan pretends to be paralyzed to convince Makbule to let him stay, and the only one who knows the truth is Arif. At first, the two do not get along well, as Arif has matured beyond his years due to his fatherlessness, while İhsan, despite his age, remains childlike. However, when his grandfather discovers Arif's love for Arzu, things change. With his grandfather's help, Arif begins to write more beautiful letters and gradually grows closer to his grandfather. Ozan, their shared loss, becomes a bridge that brings the two people together despite the decades between them.
Director:
Ümit Cihan Canpolat
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.