Completed - Drama - 115 minutes
Year of production : 2011 Director(s) : Rommel TOLENTINO Writer(s) : Rommel TOLENTINO Cast : Axel Aeiou SAMSON, Russel ABULAD, Allen DIMAUNAHAN, Sigrid Andrea BERNARDO, Xytis BEATINGO, Joemar SUSTENTO Producer(s) : Toti REYES, Rommel TOLENTINO
TOTO was born with a cleft lip and an open palate and is teased as Ngongo - a local term used to call anyone with his type of speech impediment. But despite this, the eight-year-old boy is very outspoken and opinionated. Oblivious to the attention his speech gets, Toto juggles his days criticizing his mother’s transient love life and providing moral support to her ailing aspiration to become a Japayuki -- a female entertainer in Japan. The boy must also, on a day-to-day basis, try to elude the neighborhood bully, BADONG, and help a chronic stray, deaf boy [ OGOY ] find his way home. There’s also this struggle with his class adviser, MISS DIMACULANGAN, who fully believes that the boy needs to be protected by merit of his facial & verbal malformation which resulted to the boy being excluded from his class’ song – a form of segregation Toto didn’t take sitting down. This conflict is further aggravated when the boy jumps on the prospect of competing on his school’s Creative Declamation competition - a contest of narrative drama and eloquence set on the very high-profiled Linggo ng Wika [ National Language Week ] celebration. While Ms. Dimaculangan convinces herself that this new development poses a a big problem, Toto’s mother sees this as an opportunity for her son to shine. With the help of his mother’s new fling, Dindo, & her Japayuki friends, plus the support of the boy’s newfound friends - a stray boy & a bully, Toto does manage to shine, quite brilliantly, in more ways than one.
Country(ies) : PHILIPPINES
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