A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA
Mark Dippolito was born in Cocoa Beach, Florida to Greg & Penny Dippolito. Being the youngest of four very athletic children, you could almost always catch Mark at the beach trading waves with his brother Chris and twin sisters Erika and Erin. Mark's father was a fisherman by trade up until the time Mark was born and fishing was a family affair in the Dippolito house hold. Often Mark and his siblings would have great weekend adventure with their father involving 6ft. sharks and monster stingrays. One time while Mark was fishing off the beach with his dad and brother, they caught over 1000lbs. of fish. It was such an enormous haul it payed for the family vacation that year.
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.