When some movies are scrapped, very limited info is returned as the movie summary so that you can not understand what the movie is about.
For instance, the movie summary for the movie "Page Eight" reads the following:
*"Page Eight is a 2011 film written and directed for the BBC by the British writer David Hare, his first film as director since the 1989 film Strapless. The cast includes Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, Tom Hughes, Ralph Fiennes, and Judy Davis. The film had its world premiere on 18 June 2011 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It was broadcast on BBC Two and BBC HD on 28 August 2011 in the United Kingdom, and on PBS in the United States on 6 November 2011."*
From the description above you cannot tell what the movie is about. Reading on the freebase website however, the movie summary starts from that point on and reads:
*"Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving MI5 officer whose closest friend is also his boss, the Director General of MI5, Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon). Baron dies of a heart attack at his country home where he lives with his wife (Johnny's ex-wife) and step daughter (Johnny's daughter). Baron's death comes shortly after distributing a highly explosive report to two MI5 officers (Worricker and Jill Tankard—Judy Davis) and then sharing it with the Home Secretary. At the meeting with the Home Secretary ..."*
This last part however is not fetched.
This happens for a lot of movies and I have not altered the default order of the movie agents.
In Plex media manager settings for freebase, deselect “get description”, allowing another agent to gather the info. I found Wikipedia posts 2-3 paragraphs describing the movie well.
I'm having this same issue, but cannot find the "get description" setting in order to un-check it. Has this option been removed since this post in 2012? Is it simply a matter of rearranging the order of the movie agents....putting Wikipedia at a higher priority than freebase? Thanks in advance.
I'm also looking for the solution to this. I want to be able to read the summary of the movie on the movies page, but it only shows the description of the making of it.
OK, I hope people who have the same problem I did find this post. What sander1 said on his comment was helpful.
If you want the extras and trailer from freebase but the summary from The movie DB then:
1-Set your library to freebase
2-Go to Settings>Server>Agents>Movies>Freebase
3-Select only Freebase and the movie database
4-Move Movie database to the top
5-tick the "use collection info from the movie database
This fixed the issue i was having. If I chose The movie database I got the Sumary not the extras, If instead I chose freebase, I got extras but no poster or summary.
Now with this setup, plex somehow is now showing posters, sumary and info all accurate.
