# Who was Liz Taylor?s fifth husband?
OR?
# Who played the role of the zombie in the Bride of Re-animator?
OR maybe?
# Which is the only movie in which Thomas Bern and Kim McKamy worked together?
Are you prone to pondering over such profound life-transforming questions?
Do you get a kick out of assembling trivia on movies and moviefolk?
Are you intrigued by the career paths of obscure actors and actresses?
Chances are, in the pre-internet era, you would have been ?dhoondte reh jaaoge? (trans: been hunting high and low)
But fret not, the internet is here?.just log on to? IMDb.COM (short for internet movie database).
Everything you wanted to know about movies but didn?t know where to go?..!!!
Jokes apart, this site is a virtual Encyclopedia on films and easily has the most exhaustive content that one can ever dream of.
Information covered :
For each movie, you can collect data such as year of release, cast, direction, music, awards & nominations.
Apart from this, it also acts as a mini-review site with its ?User Comments? section. Moreover, it also provides links to some external reviews.
The site also provides some information on Trivia in some cases, although this is not very comprehensive. There is also a fairly hilarious section on Goofs ? some very minute details have been pointed out, particularly in some of the classics.
In the case of newer films, one can also have access to trailors, video clips, sound clips, photographs and posters. In the Recommendations section, you get some links to spoofs & alternate versions of the movie. The Key words function is extremely detailed and comes very handy in the in-built ?Search Engine? in the site.
If you are looking for information on people, you get details such as date & place of birth, details of family, a mini biography, filmography as well as a small photo gallery.
Search Engine: This has an excellent advanced search facility which allows you to search for information classified on a wide range of parameters. You can also search for collaborations, i.e. in which movies have certain two people have worked together.
Another fascinating aspect of this site is the information available on some of the old forgotten stuff from Hollywood?s silent era.
Positives:
# Wide content
# User friendly
# Terrific search engine
# Easy maneuverability
Shortcomings:
# Focuses mainly on Hollywood.
# Very little data available on foreign films
# Photogallery is quite tacky and sometimes the links take you to wrong places.
# In the case of Bollywood ? of late there is some update, but data in the case of slightly older films woefully incomplete and in some instances, inaccurate as well.
Recommendation:
Despite its inadequacies, this site truly remains your ?one stop shop? for all information, at least as far as Hollywood is concerned.