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Cannot find "Back to 1942" from the search bar.
posted by AzraelrulezSTAFFMOD on February 9, 2013 at 3:14 AM
"http://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=back+to+1942#0" gives me "Moscow Strikes Back" from 1942 only. I was searching for "Back to 1942" from 2012. Found the page only when I tried to add it to the database as a new movie and in the error, got the chinese name in chinese font. Search with "一九四二" yields the movie, ironically the title on the page is in English (font+name).
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 9, 2013 at 1:10 PM
This is because of the way we search for movies that end with a year. It's a known bug and will be getting fixed in the next month or two. Adding a year removes it from the query and adds it as a query to a release year. Ie. "back to" in the year 1942. For now, there's only 2 ways around this:
Search for the year in quotes (back to "1942"):
Or, add the actual release year to it (back to 1942 2012):