[knd775]

You could just try to pitch it as a movie finder. It could be setup like WebMD, where you select a few symptoms and it determines what a possible diagnosis may be. You could select a few actors, the genre and maybe the time period. I actually really like this idea now ;)

[dlwiest]

True. I may pick it up again. I'll just need to figure out how to make it robust as I'd want without it becoming too clunky.

[miyou]

Just found this: www.imdb.com/search/common Does pretty much exactly that