diff --git a/movies.py b/movies.py
index 9f6a2e23752f1843267d1f59f81abc51f831df1c..0b6f76ee85f35e930a18932a688198b5533e973e 100644
--- a/movies.py
+++ b/movies.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from services import root_dir, nice_json
 from flask import Flask
 from werkzeug.exceptions import NotFound
 import json
@@ -11,7 +10,7 @@ with open("{}/database/movies.json".format(os.getcwd()), "r") as f:
 
 @app.route("/", methods=['GET'])
 def hello():
-    return nice_json({
+    return json.dumps({
         "uri": "/",
         "subresource_uris": {
             "movies": "/movies",
@@ -27,12 +26,12 @@ def movie_info(movieid):
     result = movies[movieid]
     result["uri"] = "/movies/{}".format(movieid)
 
-    return nice_json(result)
+    return json.dumps(result)
 
 
 @app.route("/movies", methods=['GET'])
 def movie_record():
-    return nice_json(movies)
+    return json.dumps(movies)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/showtimes.py b/showtimes.py
index c0c2a53628ae29315afb10400646228b1943931c..1d00c967dac56302a9305ada716cfdb3f0778c3d 100644
--- a/showtimes.py
+++ b/showtimes.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from services import root_dir, nice_json
 from flask import Flask
 from werkzeug.exceptions import NotFound
 import json
@@ -16,7 +15,7 @@ with open(showtimes_db, "r") as f:
 
 @app.route("/", methods=['GET'])
 def hello():
-    return nice_json({
+    return json.dumps({
         "uri": "/",
         "subresource_uris": {
             "showtimes": "/showtimes",
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ def hello():
 
 @app.route("/showtimes", methods=['GET'])
 def showtimes_list():
-    nice_json(showtimes)
+    return json.dumps(showtimes)
 
 
 @app.route("/showtimes/<date>", methods=['GET'])
@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@ def showtimes_record(date):
     for movie_id in showtimes[date]:
         resp = requests.get(movies_service.format(movie_id))
         result.append(resp.json()["title"])
-    return nice_json(result)
+    return json.dumps(result)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     app.run(port=5002, debug=True)