diff --git a/cmd/api/errors.go b/cmd/api/errors.go
index 8bd3c52..2c12cc8 100644
--- a/cmd/api/errors.go
+++ b/cmd/api/errors.go
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ func (app *application) errorResponse(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, st
 
 	// Write the response using the writeJSON() helper. If this happens to return an error then og it, and fall back to sending the client an empty response with a 500 Internal Server Error status code.
 	err := app.writeJSON(w, status, env, nil)
+
 	if err != nil {
 		app.logError(r, err)
 		w.WriteHeader(500)
@@ -46,3 +47,7 @@ func (app *application) methodNotAllowedResponse(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.
 	message := fmt.Sprintf("the %s method is not supported for this resource", r.Method)
 	app.errorResponse(w, r, http.StatusMethodNotAllowed, message)
 }
+
+func (app *application) badRequestResponse(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, err error) {
+	app.errorResponse(w, r, http.StatusBadRequest, err.Error())
+}
diff --git a/cmd/api/movies.go b/cmd/api/movies.go
index 158afad..ed11db6 100644
--- a/cmd/api/movies.go
+++ b/cmd/api/movies.go
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ func (app *application) createMovieHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Reques
 
 	// Use the new readJSON() helper to decode the request body into the input struct. If this returns an error, we send the client the error message along with a 400 Bad Request status code, just like before.
 	err := app.readJSON(w, r, &input)
+
 	if err != nil {
-		app.errorResponse(w, r, http.StatusBadRequest, err.Error())
+		app.badRequestResponse(w, r, err)
 		return
 	}