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Pamanhikan

Country: USA, Language: English, 29 mins

  • Director: Angelo Santos
  • Writer: Angelo Santos
  • Producer: George Gibson; Steven E. Mallorca

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Remember when your parents met your spouse's parents for the first time? For Filipinos, there is a tradition for that. It's called a 'pamanhikan' (pronounced paw-men-he-can). For Brendan and Jun, an interracial gay couple, their pamanhikan occurs over brunch. Bringing Jun's supportive mother and ignorant father together with Brendan's disapproving mother and uninvited father doesn't go according to plan when conversations on God, athletics, and gay sex lead to an argument about bridesmaids that culminates when blood and holy water are spilled.


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Cast & Characters

John Arcilla as Raynaldo Hernandez, Sr.;
Julia Campanelli as Alice Lowell;
Patrick Cooley as Brendan McDowell;
Eric Elizaga as Raynaldo 'Jun' Hernandez, Jr.;
Bill Hoag as Sean McDowell;
Arianne Recto as Clarissa Hernandez