Tanging Yaman
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Title: Tanging Yaman
Year: 2000
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Synopsis:
Three siblings are now well settled with their respective families, in widely contrasting lifestyles. The one common thing that binds them loosely together is the love that their mother holds for all of them and her grandchildren, albeit expressed in varying ways and degrees, but always equally nurturing and self-giving. Much as they are held together by her, they are in turn separated by physical distance and the sad legacy left behind by their deceased, erstwhile strong-willed, patriarchal father.
Long suppressed pains and resentments unravel as the three siblings argue over the prospect of selling a vast track of land left behind by the patriarch. The process also brings to surface the hurts between parents and children, a likely spectacle of the "sins of the father visiting upon the children", threatening to spill over to the third generation.
What stuff each one is made of faces its true test when the family matriarch, in an act richly resonant with ritual Christian self-offering, yields her whole being to the God of Providence and succumbs to a debilitating disease. Do her beloved children unite, or do the frayed relationships finally break up?
The family saga is a stark and poignant dramatization of provincial values vs. urban survival instincts precariously held in the balance by the abiding love, hope, and faith against the gnawing disease of the spirit brought by cynicism, materialism, and an unforgiving heart.
Cast:
* Gloria Romero
* Hilda Koronel
* Dina Bonnevie
* Edu Manzano
* Johnny Delgado
* Marvin Agustin
* Carol Banawa
* Shaina Magdayao
* Jiro Manio
* Janet McBride
* Dominic Ochoa
* Cherry Pie Picache
* John Prats
* C.J. Ramos
* Jericho Rosales
* Joel Torre
Posted by rgomez at 11:12 PM