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Jacqueline Comes Home (The Chiong Story) (2018)

Jacqueline Comes Home (The Chiong Story) poster
Original title
Jacqueline Comes Home: The Chiong Story
Directed by
Ysabelle Peach
Genre
biographical film
Country
Philippines
Rated
R-13
Elsewhere
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How it feels

This film retells the true story of the Chiong sisters who were abducted from a mall in Cebu. One sister is found dead and the other is never seen again.

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What happens

Jacqueline Comes Home is a Filipino crime biographical film starring Meg Imperial and Donnalyn Bartolome playing the roles of Marijoy and Jacqueline Chiong and Ryan Eigenmann as Sonny, the ring leader of the rape and murder. This movie is Alma Moreno's first produced by Viva Films outside of her home studio Regal Films. The film is about the controversial Chiong murder case. On the night of July 16, 1997, sisters Marijoy (Donnalyn Bartolome) and Jacqueline (Meg Imperial) Chiong were abducted at a mall on Ayala Center Cebu in Cebu City. There, the sisters were gang raped and Marijoy was found dead in a ravine in Carcar, Cebu. However, Jacqueline was never found. The suspects would include Paco Larranaga, who is not portrayed in the film. Rodney Torres did a photo shoot for Meg Imperial and Donnalyn Bartolome for the film in Manila. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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