Several Movies have the wrong year in Plex. Plex matches to the correct movie, but the year is way off. This only happens with The Movie Database Agent and not the Plex Movie Agent. I also confirmed that there is nothing wrong with The Movie Database; it’s a Plex issue.
A couple examples are “1941 (1979).mp4” and “Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972).mp4”. All the movie info is correct except the year is 1999 and 1977 respectively. That’s 20 years and 5 years off.
Here is a screenshot of the 1941 movie in Plex…
Here is a screenshot that shows that Plex is setting the “Originally Available” date wrong…
Here is the JSON results from The Movie Database to show that the only date it provides is for 1979…
{
“adult”: false,
“backdrop_path”: “/aZTYOPxfEg4bfcXvhNnVpQ8IZya.jpg”,
“belongs_to_collection”: null,
“budget”: 35000000,
“genres”: [
{
“id”: 35,
“name”: “Comedy”
}
],
“homepage”: “”,
“id”: 11519,
“imdb_id”: “tt0078723”,
“original_language”: “en”,
“original_title”: “1941”,
“overview”: “It’s been six days since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Panic grips California, supposedly the next target of the Japanese forces. Everywhere in California, people are suffering from war nerves. Chaos erupts all over the state. An Army Air Corps Captain, a civilian with a deranged sense of Nationalism, civilian defenders, and a Motor Pool crew all end up chasing a Japanese sub planning to attack LA.”,
“popularity”: 13.191,
“poster_path”: “/sphN9W4YO63K07dH2oMDCRChgfg.jpg”,
“production_companies”: [
{
“id”: 5,
“logo_path”: “/71BqEFAF4V3qjjMPCpLuyJFB9A.png”,
“name”: “Columbia Pictures”,
“origin_country”: “US”
},
{
“id”: 6128,
“logo_path”: null,
“name”: “A-Team”,
“origin_country”: “”
},
{
“id”: 33,
“logo_path”: “/8lvHyhjr8oUKOOy2dKXoALWKdp0.png”,
“name”: “Universal Pictures”,
“origin_country”: “US”
}
],
“production_countries”: [
{
“iso_3166_1”: “US”,
“name”: “United States of America”
}
],
“release_date”: “1979-12-13”,
“revenue”: 31755742,
“runtime”: 118,
“spoken_languages”: [
{
“iso_639_1”: “en”,
“name”: “English”
},
{
“iso_639_1”: “de”,
“name”: “Deutsch”
},
{
“iso_639_1”: “it”,
“name”: “Italiano”
},
{
“iso_639_1”: “ja”,
“name”: “日本語”
}
],
“status”: “Released”,
“tagline”: “Paranoia meets pandemonium.”,
“title”: “1941”,
“video”: false,
“vote_average”: 5.8,
“vote_count”: 342
}
