Graceland
Writer-director Ron Morales conjures an atmosphere of unpredictable live-wire dread throughout.
Graceland
In this unpredictable and tightly-paced thriller, family man Marlon Villar—a longtime chauffeur to corrupt Filipino politician Manuel Chango—is faced with an unthinkable predicament when he gets ambushed while driving both his boss’s twelve-year-old girl and his own daughter home from school one afternoon. In the chaos of the kidnapping attempt, things go horribly awry and Marlon’s daughter is taken and held for ransom instead. Desperate to save his daughter, Marlon must navigate the conflicting motives between the ruthless kidnappers, untrustworthy Chango and determined detectives eager to name him a suspect without letting on the wrong girl was taken hostage. As events progress wildly unaccording to plan, Marlon, Chango and their families are forced into a rapid downward spiral of deceit and betrayal that will leave no one innocent.
Genre
Crime,
Thriller/Suspense
Runtime
84
Language
English
Director
Ron Morales
Cast
Arnold Reyes,
Menggie Cobarrubias,
Ella Guevara,
Marife Necesito,
Patricia Ona Gayod
FEATURED REVIEW
Tasha Robinson, AV Club
During an A.V. Club interview after Graceland premièred at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012, writer-director Ron Morales admitted he wrote the screenplay having never seen or heard of High And Low: “Then I saw it after the first draft, and I was like, ‘Dammit. Everyone’s going to be like, “This is ...
Played at
Pasadena
Playhouse 7
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