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Slingshot

Slingshot

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 16, 2007

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Crime, Drama

User Score

58%

Original Title

Tirador

Production Companies

Centerstage Productions

Director

Brillante Ma Mendoza

Description

A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau about life for the lowest of the low in the Philippines poorest and most crime-ridden districts. National elections are coming up so in the usual attempt to appear “tough-on-crime”, The Big Boys have been sent into crack down on the the local squatters, thieves and miscreants who litter the film like broken bottle. And since no sweep is ever a clean sweep, the cops brutal shock-force tactics quickly ripple outwards with jagged repurcussions.