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  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 27 m

Summary The Pineda family operates and lives in a run-down movie house that shows dated sexy double-feature films. As they go about their daily activities, we get a glimpse of how the family suffers and deals with each other’s sins and vices. Preoccupied with their own personal demons, they are unmindful that inside their movie theater another k...

Directed By: Brillante Mendoza

Written By: Armando Lao, Boots Agbayani Pastor

  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 27 m

Service (Serbis)

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
76
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Summary The Pineda family operates and lives in a run-down movie house that shows dated sexy double-feature films. As they go about their daily activities, we get a glimpse of how the family suffers and deals with each other’s sins and vices. Preoccupied with their own personal demons, they are unmindful that inside their movie theater another k...

Directed By: Brillante Mendoza

Written By: Armando Lao, Boots Agbayani Pastor

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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82% Positive
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18% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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100
Serbis has the feel of a documentary, but a documentary can't accomplish what Serbis does: Take us to a corner of the world where sex and regret are so intimately entwined.
By Jonathan Curiel FULL REVIEW
88
Merry, filthy, unstoppably hormonal, Serbis feels very much like the sort of movie that happens when no one is minding the store.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
83
At its best, Serbis is a vibrant slice of life that establishes this theater as a living organism, nurturing a society of outcasts; it's like "Ship Of Fools" with blowjobs and boil-lancings.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
75
The theater building is a four-story monster, and by the end of the picture we know it very well, in all its broken-down glory.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
70
The camera explores each nook and cranny of the dilapidated movie-house like an usher who knows his way round blindfolded, and the building, with its richly visual interior structures desperately in need of an overhaul, comes to symbolize poetically the predicament of its inhabitants and their moral ambiguity.
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63
This is not a film most people will enjoy. Its qualities are apparent only if appreciates cinematic style for itself.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
60
Brillante Mendoza’s latest opus that revels in shock value.
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Production Company Center Stage Productions, Swift Productions, Asian Cinema Fund (Pusan International Film Festival), Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum
Release Date Jan 30, 2009
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline Service. It's the family business.
Website https://my.mail.ru/mail/skyfiremoon/video/_myvideo/228.html
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Awards

Gawad Urian Awards
• 5 Wins & 11 Nominations
Young Critics Circle, Philippines
• 5 Nominations
Asian Film Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

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