A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Rich Ratliff
Richard C. Ratliff
Special Effects:
1977 Exorcist II: The Heretic
1987 Overboard
1987 Spaceballs
1994 Speed
2000 Mission: Impossible II
Special Effects Coordinator:
1977 Exorcist II: The Heretic
1984 Lovelines
1985 Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
1987 Overboard
1987 Spaceballs
1988 The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story
1990 3 Men and a Little Lady
1990 Impulse
1991 Dying Young
1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights
1994 Speed
1997 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1999 My Favorite Martian
2000 Mission: Impossible II
Special Effects Technician:
1977 Exorcist II: The Heretic
1984 Lovelines
1985 Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
1987 Overboard
1987 Spaceballs
1988 The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story
1990 3 Men and a Little Lady
1990 Impulse
1991 Dying Young
1993 Robin Hood: Men in Tights
1994 Speed
1997 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1999 My Favorite Martian
2000 Mission: Impossible II
2009 Star Trek
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.