Rotonda (2006)

movie

Country: Philippines
Genres: Drama
Release: 2006-07-18
Director: Ron Bryant
Writers: Ron Bryant
Language: Filipino
Stars: Shamaine Buencamino , Celso Ad. Castillo , Soliman Cruz , Michael Angelo Dagñalan , Perry Dizon , Chona Fernando , Emilio Garcia , Mark Gil , Simon Ibarra , Mario Magallona
Runtime: min
Awards: 5 wins & 6 nominations
AKA: Rotonda (Philippines)
Plot: Beginning at the break of dawn and ending the next morning, the story, set around a rugged city intersection, follows the path of a marked one-thousand-peso bill as it transfers from one character to another, returning to its originator in the end, blood-tainted. The money leads us to each of the five offbeat characters, all in desperate need of their soul's redemption: a disillusioned tabloid reporter planning to commit suicide in a motel, a nightclub dancer con prostitute who has avowed to give her kid sister a better life, a fallen henchman resurfacing to score big time, a chronic runaway teenage girl held captive as sex slave by a cop, and a long-suffering son bearing a sadomasochistic relationship with his brutish, half-paralyzed father who behaves like a mad dictator in his wheelchair. Like a ticking time bomb, the story unravels with unforgiving immediacy and explodes in the end with a tabloid front-pager triple homicide where death seems to have come full circle.
IMDB:tt0843599