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Love is... (2017)

Love is... poster
Original title
Love Is...
Directed by
Adolfo Alix, Jr.
Genre
drama film
Country
Philippines
Runtime
1h 28m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A television film about a person struggling with clinical depression. It follows the impact of the condition on the individual and their close relationships.

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What happens

Love is... is a Philippine television film by Eat Bulaga! and was aired on October 21, 2017, at GMA Network without any commercial break. It was directed by Adolf Alix Jr. starring the AlDub love team of Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza. The main plot of the television film drama revolves around the effects of clinical depression to a person. Eat Bulaga! also released the whole television film on its official YouTube channel under Creative Commons Attribution License and distributed by GMA Pictures. On the day that it was broadcast on television, the official hashtag of the show (#ALDUBxEBLoveIs) trended on Twitter where it landed on the top spot in the Philippines and the second spot worldwide. It generated around 1.38 million tweets even before the television film started. According to the AGB Nielsen, Love is... got a television rating of 7.8%, which is the highest percentage on its time slot. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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