your question is a little fuzzy, but if you wanna access something like vote_average directly you need

$VAR1->{movie_results}[0]{vote_average} because the value of movie_results is an array of hashes. 

$VAR1 = {
               ...
              'movie_results' => [               
                                   {
                                     ...
                                     'vote_average' => '6.8',
                                     ...

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see perldsc about nested data structures,

I suppose you can have multiple results for the same query, that's why it's an AoH.

And if you just wanna have the AoH try

my $a_movie_results = $VAR1->{"movie_results"}; as a array_ref

or expanded to a list

my @movie_results = @{$VAR1->{"movie_results"}}; as an array

update

likewise:

my $h_first_result = $VAR1->{"movie_results"}[0]; as a hash_ref

or expanded to a list

my %first_result   = %{ $VAR1->{"movie_results"}[0] }; as a hash

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re: Having trouble reading in a hash from a referenced array by LanX
in thread Having trouble reading in a hash from a referenced array by SergioQ

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