Lilet Never Happened

Oct 13, 2012

1h 45m

★ 7.0

Overview

Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child prostitution. She is a fighter. She is a dreamer. She is a rebel and she thinks she can handle the world with her wits. But she has to face up to reality when she runs out of innocent dreams.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Springfilm

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Cast

Lilet

Sandy Talag

Claire

Johanna ter Steege

Nonoy

Timothy Castillo

James

John Arcilla

Rosing

Angeli Bayani

Tessie

Dorothea Marabut-Yrastorza

Dino

Jermaine Patrick Ulgasan

Nicolas, an aimless adolescent who hasn't yet found his way in life leaves his grandparent's home, hitchhikes to a small town, and befriends, Charly an outspoken and slightly older prostitute, a red-headed beauty who appears to ply her trade in the same no-nonsense way she clears the breakfast dishes. She seems to find something endearing about Nicolas' mussed hair and dopey face, so she puts him up in the teeny trailer home that she maintains with such hilarious fussiness. As their unusual domestic arrangement evolves, each stumbles vulnerably into new emotional territory.

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