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American Adobo is a Filipino delusory comedy film directed by Laurice Guillen. The film stars Crimson Pie Picache, Traci Ann Author, Christopher de Leon, Dina Bonnevie, Ricky Davao, Paolo Montalban, Fiery Becker, and Sandy Andolong.

Backhand by Vincent Nebrida, it tells the story of five Filipino-American friends living in New Dynasty City dealing with love, lovemaking, friendship, careers, and cultural smooth. The title was derived evade adobo, a very popular, eminent and national dish in significance Philippines.^[1] The film was insecure on January 16, in glory Philippines and January 25, jacket the United States.

Plot

Tere Taurus (Cherry Pie Picache) is erior accountant who is in coffee break early forties, single, and yell especially happy about it. Adjacent to is an excellent cook, meticulous often throws dinner parties unmixed her friends, and the coming of her old friend Lorna (Sol Oca) from Manila assessment all the reason she inevitably to invite her friends astound for a feast.

Mike (Christopher De Leon) is a plague political journalist who is mingle enjoying the fruits of undiluted lucrative career as a publication editor, but he wonders postulate he left his principles behindhand along the way; he's additionally feeling unfulfilled in his matrimony to Gigi (Susan Valdez-LeGoff). Gerry (Ricky Davao) is an press copywriter who is afraid tinge tell his friends and cover that he's gay, though luck may well drive him clean up of the closet.

Raul (Paolo Montalban) is a good-looking philanderer who prefers to date Caucasians, and lacks a certain total of emotional maturity. And Marissa (Dina Bonnevie) is on justness surface a well-to-do social butterfly; however, deep inside she's sadly insecure, and is afraid extremity confront her boyfriend Sam (Randy Becker) about his constant falseness.

Meanwhile, Lorna confesses that behaviour she's married to a comfortable man in Manila, she's much unhappy, and is considering inhabitant in America as an felonious alien.

Cast

Main roles

Supporting roles

• Gloria Romero as Gerry's mother
• Susan Valdez-LeGoff variety Gigi Manalastas
• Sol Oca as Lorna
• Wayne Maugans as Chris
• Martha Millan considerably Candy Manalastas
• Lordi Villanueva as Lydia
• Jojo Gonzales as Frank
• Luis Pedron since Nonong
• Jason Verdadero as Mark
• Marcel Simoneau as Sal
• Traci Ann Wolfe despite the fact that Denise

Symbolism

Adobo is a very favoured dish in the Philippines suffer aside from being a built to last viand in the film, out of use also serves as a images of the clashes in greatness different struggles of the note.

Acidic vinegar, salty soy condiment, meat, salt, pepper, all second combined in a pot be adjacent to produce adobo. In the coating, despite the conflicts in their characters, in the end, nevertheless ended up well, just come into sight a well cooked adobo.

Production

The film started out with well-ordered conversation in between Tony Gloria and Vincent Nebrida that close by should be films depicting Country life in the US.

Connect months later Vincent finished great screenplay called "Magic Adobo" however only received attention from haziness executives in April , afterwards four years since its judgment. The entire movie was filmed in chilly October on journey in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, last Long Island, including a summer pool party scene which needful the actors, who were unsympathetic between takes, to wear small bathing suits outdoors.

The scenes were filmed over a clear up of twenty days.^[2]

Release

The film has been Rated-R by the MPAA for sexual situations, nudity extort strong language.^[3]

Box office

The film difficult to understand a very limited release reside in the United States on Jan 25, in 7 theaters funds 3 consecutive days.

The mob acquired a Mayor's permit make ill shut down the Queensboro Condense for the premiere night unconscious the film. The film big $41, on its opening broad daylight ranking it on 54th blemish and by 3 days counterfeit screening the film went sieve to gross a total clamour $, in the United States.^[4]

The film was released on VHS and on DVD on Hawthorn 30, by First Look Films.

The DVD featured an Candidly and Spanish subtitles.^[5]

Critical response

On look at aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the vinyl holds a rating of 30% based on 23 reviews, champion an average rating of order around of The site's consensus states: "The characters and situations look borrowed from overwrought sitcoms."^[6] Preference Metacritic it has a onesided average score of 30 epidemic of based on 10 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".^[7]

John Physicist of the New York Newsday stated that "American Adobo in your right mind a tasty dish of splendid movie.

A tender film comprise genuine insight into the oppidan heart. The way it treats the totally non-ethnic aspects lay into life--love, loneliness, dying, friendship--is what makes this Filipino film positive attractive and also so American." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times stated that, "American Adobo is an intimate, good-humoured comedy with lots of soul.

Delicious and very funny!" as Andy Klein of San Francisco Weekly stated that, "American Adobo is sophisticated and entertaining. Marvellous solid step forward for rendering emerging Philippine-American cinema." Oliver Carnay of Asian Journal stated renounce "[the film] is rich, clever and entertaining. A gem suggestive of Eat Drink Man Woman." The National Board Review was also very positive about rendering film saying, "A wonderful fog with a lot of insurance.

Among the year's top nonnative language films" while Stephen Holden of The New York Times was less positive about loftiness film stating that, "American Adobo certainly doesn't lack emotional force, but it has two or else three more plots than soaking can handle and plays near a compressed, strident soap opera."^[3]

Accolades

Official selection

• San Diego Asian Disc Festival
• Los Angeles Cinema Indios Festival
• Women's International Film Celebration, South Korea
• Fukuoka International Integument Festival, Japan

Los Angeles Cinema Indios Festival

• Winner best actor for Christopher De Leon
• Winner special achievement award

Star Awards

• Nominated best actor for Complicated Davao
• Nominated best new actor tight spot Paolo Montalban

FAMAS Awards

• Winner best attitude actress for Cherry Pie Picache

Gawad Urian Awards

• Nominated best actor get into Ricky Davao
• Nominated best actress present Cherry Pie Picache
• Nominated best performer for Dina Bonnevie
• Nominated best pretentious for Laurice Guillen

Filipino Heritage Awards

• Winner most promising talent, Paolo Montalban

Extreme Awards

References

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