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Title Metro Manila
Published Madman Entertainment, 2013
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 minutes) : .flv file, sound
Summary Seeking a better life for himself and his family, Oscar Ramirez decides to move from the poverty stricken rice fields of the northern Philippine mountain ranges and head to the capital, Metro Manila. Whilst there, he falls foul of various city inhabitants whose manipulative ways are a daily part of their ongoing survival. Oscar manages to land a job as a driver for an armoured truck company and is befriended by his senior officer, Douglas Ong. Before long, it becomes apparent that Ong has been planning for the arrival of someone like Oscar for some time. A poetic, searngly realistic drama/heist movie from Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker, Sean Ellis (CASHBACK)
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Performer Althea Vega, Jake Macapagal, John Arcilla
Event Originally produced by Madman Entertainment in 2013
Notes In English
Subject Crime.
Independent films.
Foreign films.
Drama.
Motion pictures.
drama (literary genre)
Crime
Drama
Foreign films
Independent films
Motion pictures
Genre/Form Feature films
Feature films.
Form Streaming video
Author Ellis, Sean, film director
Vega, Althea, actor
Macapagal, Jake, actor
Arcilla, John, actor
Madman Entertainment (Firm)
Kanopy (Firm)