Underplayed Gems

Hiram na Mukha (1992)

Hiram na Mukha poster
Directed by
Joel Lamangan
Genre
drama
Country
Philippines
Runtime
1h 48m
Rating
8.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A woman’s face is altered to look like someone else’s. She becomes entangled in a love triangle with two men.

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What happens

Hiram na Mukha (transl. The Borrowed Face) is a 1992 Filipino drama film directed by Joel Lamangan from a screenplay written by Ronaldo C. Carballo and Amado Lacuesta, based on the komiks story of the same name written by Pablo S. Gomez. The film stars Nanette Medved, Christopher de Leon, and Cesar Montano in his first ever starring role in a Viva Films production. In 2007, the film was remade into a television drama series of the same name by ABS-CBN as the second installment of Sineserye Presents and starred Heart Evangelista, Geoff Eigenmann, and TJ Trinidad. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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