diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 82ee3e6..fc1ffc6 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
-  "name":        "jleagle/omdb-imdb-api-client",
-  "keywords":    [
+  "name": "jleagle/omdb-imdb-api-client",
+  "keywords": [
     "imdb",
     "omdb",
     "api",
@@ -8,22 +8,22 @@
     "helper"
   ],
   "description": "A package to retrieve movies and TV information from IMDB using the API at omdbapi.com",
-  "license":     "MIT",
-  "authors":     [
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "authors": [
     {
-      "name":     "James Eagle",
-      "email":    "jimeagle@gmail.com",
+      "name": "James Eagle",
+      "email": "jimeagle@gmail.com",
       "homepage": "http://jimeagle.com"
     }
   ],
-  "require":     {
-    "php":               ">=5.4",
-    "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "~5.0"
+  "require": {
+    "php": ">=5.4",
+    "jleagle/curl-wrapper": "~0.1"
   },
   "require-dev": {
-    "phpunit/phpunit": "~4.6"
+    "phpunit/phpunit": "~5.0"
   },
-  "autoload":    {
+  "autoload": {
     "psr-4": {
       "Jleagle\\Imdb\\": "src/"
     }
diff --git a/src/Imdb.php b/src/Imdb.php
index 7b7db4b..d640018 100644
--- a/src/Imdb.php
+++ b/src/Imdb.php
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 <?php
 namespace Jleagle\Imdb;
 
-use GuzzleHttp\Client;
+use Jleagle\CurlWrapper\Curl;
+use Jleagle\CurlWrapper\Exceptions\CurlException;
 use Jleagle\Imdb\Exceptions\ImdbException;
 use Jleagle\Imdb\Responses\Movie;
 use Jleagle\Imdb\Responses\Result;
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ public static function search($search, $movieType = null, $year = null)
    *
    * @return bool
    */
-  private static function isValidId($string)
+  protected static function isValidId($string)
   {
     return preg_match("/tt\\d{7}/", $string) > 0;
   }
@@ -122,17 +123,22 @@ private static function isValidId($string)
    *
    * @throws ImdbException
    */
-  private static function _get($params)
+  protected static function _get($params)
   {
     $params = array_filter($params);
 
     $params['r'] = 'json';
     $params['v'] = '1';
 
-    $client = new Client();
-    $response = $client
-      ->get('http://www.omdbapi.com/', ['query' => $params])
-      ->json();
+    try
+    {
+      $response = Curl::get('http://www.omdbapi.com/', $params)
+        ->run()->getJson();
+    }
+    catch(CurlException $e)
+    {
+      throw new ImdbException($e->getResponse()->getErrorMessage());
+    }
 
     if(isset($response['Response']) && $response['Response'] == 'False')
     {