Service (2008)

Original title

Serbis

Directed by

Brillante Mendoza

Genre

drama film

Country

Philippines

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family in the Philippines runs a pornographic movie theater. The matriarch holds the family together as they deal with personal problems and the daily chaos of their business.

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What happens

Service (Filipino: Serbis) is a 2008 Filipino independent drama film directed by Brillante Mendoza and stars Gina Pareño as the matriarch of the Pineda family who owns a porn cinema in Angeles City. The film competed for the Palme d'Or in the main competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. It is also the first Filipino film to compete at the main competition in Cannes, since Lino Brocka's Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim in 1984. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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