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Cages (2005)

Cages poster
Directed by
Graham Streeter
Genre
drama film
Country
Singapore
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
15
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A single mother named Ali Tan keeps finding herself in troubled relationships. She confronts her estranged father and learns a dark secret from twenty years ago that changes their relationship.

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What happens

Cages is a 2005 film, directed by American film director Graham Streeter which tells the story of a single mother named Ali Tan (Tan Kheng Hua) who attempts to escape repeated bad relationships which puts her before the man she resents the most—her father, Tan (Mako Iwamatsu). The truth is not always easy to face when her father reveals a dark secret 20 years past; a past that may cost a lifetime of relationship. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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