A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
A small-town Michigan girl who prides herself on having both beauty and brains, Lilly Jenkins is here to twist bad first impressions into a strength. With her small size earning her many diminutive nicknames amongst her friends, Lilly is often mistaken as airheaded because she doesn’t always speak the most eloquently and has been known to lose her train of thought. However, Lilly is actually a college-educated engineer. She’s been married to her husband for five years, and he was the one who encouraged her to pursue a STEM degree when they met during her second month at Michigan State University. In this competition, Lilly wants to play the middleman and be influential, but unassuming. She's highly observant and typically gets along with people easily. Her ditzy personality can fool people into thinking she’s not a threat while she stirs the pot in the background. People always trust Lilly with the latest gossip, and she’s more than happy to spread the juiciest tea if it means winning.
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.