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The very fact that the fetch is only taking you seconds is an indication that the fetch is only getting the director for the movie and not all of the the other actors and their roles as well. I you were fetching the other actors and roles you would definitely notice the time difference. I've done testing on this and getting actors by role (in the database that means populating the actor and actorlinkmovie tables for all actors partaking in the movie) is noticeable not only because of the time it takes but because the screen shows each actor being fetched, one by one. Like I said, this wasn't working correctly for me until I changed the code to correct a few coding errors.

I use the configuration option to get movie info when I have added a large number of new movies and when I am testing. What is evident to me is that all of the options to fetch movie info, and there are at least three, seem to do it differently (which I think is not ideal). I have discerned this by looking at the code and debugging all of the options. I haven't changed what the app was doing - I have enhanced the configuration app to be more flexible in how it fetches movie info.

I suggest that the default should be to get the director for the movie only and that the configuration app should be used when you want to get actors by role; either en masse of by using the Lookup feature.