May Nagmamahal Sa'yo (1996)

Original title

May Nagmamahal sa Iyo

Directed by

Marilou Diaz-Abaya

Genre

drama

Country

Philippines

Runtime

2h 03m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman returns to the Philippines after working overseas. She searches for the son she gave up for adoption years ago at an orphanage.

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What happens

May Nagmamahal Sa'yo (English: Someone Loves You), internationally released as Madonna and Child, is a 1996 Philippine drama film directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya from a screenplay written by Ricky Lee and Shaira Mella Salvador. Starring Lorna Tolentino, Ariel Rivera, and Stefano Mori in his first lead role, the film revolves around a woman who returned from working overseas and began to search for her missing son, whom she gave up for adoption at the orphanage years earlier. It also stars Claudine Barretto, Gina Pareño, Renato del Prado, Jaclyn Jose, Tom Taus Jr., Emman Abeleda, Rolando Tinio, Archie Adamos, and Lilia Cuntapay. Produced and distributed by ABS-CBN Film Productions, the film was theatrically released in the Philippines on 25 January 1996. It was later screened in film festivals and retrospective events worldwide, including in Hong Kong on 27 March 1996, as part of the 20th Hong Kong International Film Festival, in Japan on 15 September 1996, as one of the exhibited Filipino films for the 6th Fukuoka International Film Festival, and in Germany on 26 June 1999, as part of the tribute to the director at the Munich International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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