A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Lucky Mangione was born in Brooklyn, NY and split time between there and North Carolina. Growing up his family owned and operated several martial art studios. During his time as a martial arts competitor he won several National Championships and 2 World Sparring titles during his competition days. He holds a 4th degree Black Belt in the style of Isshin-Ryu Karate and has studied several other forms of martial arts. Lucky appeared in the family film Goosebumps, where he played one of R.L. Steins' main monsters alongside Jack Black and Dylan Minette. He also appears in a leading role in the crime thriller, Stanley, where he played a deranged crime boss with multiple personalities. Over the years he has danced for several of hip hop's biggest artists including Digital Underground, Flo-Ryda , Nappy Roots , and The Ying-Yang.
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.