A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
The self loving popularity obsessed Alice Buchanan is played by the wonderfully talented Leanna Pareja. With Colombian roots, Leanna Pareja is native to Southern California. She worked as a model before breaking into acting, starting with small roles in The Jerk Theory (2009) and The Kane Files: Life of Trial (2010). She came to public attention for her role on TNT's all new Dallas (2012). In the episode "Hedging Your Bets." Leanna guest starred as the "Real Marta" acting alongside the late Larry Hagman. Leanna has focused on giving back to the impoverished and less fortunate, traveling to places like Ethiopia, Egypt, Central and South America. Some of the charities Leanna has contributed to are Engage Now Africa, Charity Water, Operation Smile, and World Vision.
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.