| Third World Happy | |
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| Directed by | EJ Salcedo |
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| Distributed by | Cinema One Originals |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Philippines |
| Language | Filipino |
Third World Happy is a 2010 Philippine drama film directed by EJ Salcedo and starring Sam Milby and Jodi Sta. Maria as former partners. [1] The film debuted 11 November 2010 at the Cinema One Originals Digital Film Festival, [2] and had theatrical release across the Philippines on May 25, 2011. [3] [4] [5]
Wesley (Sam Milby) was a Fil-Am and a naturalized citizen when he left Philippines 12 years earlier. In America, he aspired to become a painter, and revealed that his parents died before he left the country to finish his dreams, he became a Fulbright scholar to achieve it. Years later, he received a phone call that his loved one had died and he was required to visit the wake. There he met his ex-girlfriend (Jodi Sta. Maria), his friends, his aunt and his own older brother, who will be his guide to give him a shining light and give him the courage to look at the coffin and say his last goodbyes. It is revealed that his Kuya Danny was the dead one after all.
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