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- 2002
- R
- First Look Home Entertainment
- 1 h 44 m
- 2002
- R
- First Look Home Entertainment
- 1 h 44 m
Summary In New York City, over the course of one year, five Filipino-American friends share dinners, experiences, friendship, and romance.
Directed By: Laurice Guillen
Written By: Vincent R. Nebrida
- 2002
- R
- First Look Home Entertainment
- 1 h 44 m
- 2002
- R
- First Look Home Entertainment
- 1 h 44 m
American Adobo
30
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Summary In New York City, over the course of one year, five Filipino-American friends share dinners, experiences, friendship, and romance.
Directed By: Laurice Guillen
Written By: Vincent R. Nebrida
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
30
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
60% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
30
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
60% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Adobo doesn't exoticize the culture so much as leaven it with a sense of ordinariness.
Tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot.
The film is reasonably entertaining, though it begins to drag two-thirds through, when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy.
Marinated in clichés and mawkish dialogue.
As the film loses its grip on its multiple stories, the title begins to suggest an overheated stew bubbling out of its pot. By the end of the film, the intersecting dramas and histrionic performances have spilled all over the floor, so to speak.
The movie is stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed.
The film's failings are only highlighted by the fact that while, occasionally, we're granted real glimpses of interior lives, largely emanating from de Leon, Davao and Picache, those lives are never given the chance to take shape.
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Production Company
ABS-CBN,
Magic Adobo Productions,
Outrider Pictures,
Unitel Pictures
Release Date Jan 23, 2002
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating R
Tagline Sex is the appetizer. Love is the main course. Friendship is the dessert.
Website
http://www.americanadobo.com/
Awards
Gawad Urian Awards
• 5 Nominations
FAMAS Awards
• 2 Nominations
FAP Awards, Philippines
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
