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Crying Ladies

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Philippines · 2003
1h 50m
Director Mark Meily
Starring Sharon Cuneta, Angel Aquino, Hilda Koronel, Eric Quizon
Genre Comedy

Three working-class Manila women — Stella, Ailing and Choleng — are hired as paid mourners at a traditional Chinese funeral.

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L.A. Weekly by Chuck Wilson

The nonstop jumping around undercuts Meily's momentum, especially in the film's overly languorous final third. Still, there's a refreshing optimism fueling his take on working-class life, as if Meily views friendship and neighborly generosity as currencies equal to cold, hard cash.

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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Sentimental and predictable, Meily's sweet-natured feature-film debut was hugely popular in the Philippines; its day-to-day details will be exotic to non-Filipino audiences but the characters' dilemmas are couched in the universal language of sitcom complications and fortuitous resolutions.

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