A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Illinois, USA
Born:
March 22, 1955
Died:
March 4, 1995
David Hodgin was an American screenwriter, known for Murder at 1600 (1997). He died March 4, 1995, of congenital heart failure while watching a movie in a suburban Chicago theater. He was 39. He had lived with a heart condition since birth, but it had remained stabilized for most of his life. The film, Murder at 1600, was released on April 18, 1997, some two years after the 39-year-old Hodgin died. The movie has an "In Memory Of" him in the closing titles.
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.