Grandmother

Name: Grandmother
Genre: Drama
Released: 2009-09-23
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 7.2

1h 50m Tagalog

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Grandmother

1h 50m Tagalog

★ #84,007 Drama

#family tragedy #legal battle #intersecting lives #philippine cinema #economic struggle #elderly women #community support #street violence #knife murder #funeral struggle #quest for justice #grandmothers #moral confrontation #bureaucratic maze #public institutions #victim’s family

Two elderly women bear the consequences of a crime involving their respective grandsons. One is the victim, the other is the suspect. Both weak and poor, they laboriously solicit money in the midst of a storm, one for the victim's burial, the other for the suspect's bail bond.

Director Brillante Ma Mendoza

Screenplay Linda Casimiro