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Mamu (and a Mother Too)

Mamu (and a Mother Too)

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 12, 2018

Runtime

2h 2m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

50%

Original Title

Mamu (and a Mother Too)

Production Companies

Cinema One Originals, Star Cinema – ABS-CBN Film Productions, Film Development Council of the Philippines

Director

Rod Singh

Description

A transgender sex worker in her late 40s along Fields Avenue whose only aspiration is to have breast implants for her profession unexpectedly assumes the role of a mother to her orphaned niece, a transgender youth who is only beginning to discover her own sexuality. As she works more shifts to save for her implants, troubles arise when she begins to feel the weight of her struggles – being an aging sex worker in fast-evolving society, a partner to her young fiancé, and a parent to a teenager she just met. Her difficult confrontations eventually lead her to a new attitude towards life, and a unique recipe to a famous Kapampangan dish, Sisig.