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      Baler

      2008 1h 56m Drama Romance War List
      Reviews 54% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings A mixed-race soldier and a Filipino girl fall in love during the Siege of Baler, a war between Spanish soldiers and Filipino forces. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Love is worth fighting for. True to its movie tagline, this is a wonderful and nice period and romance movie which also explicitly promotes Baler and Aurora province as a place to visit with the use of scenic sights as a background. This theme also qualifies it as a good travel movie. This is a period romance movie about ill-fated love with historical background about The Siege of Baler. If you're into a historical movie with a twist of conflict and romance, then this film is for you. Actually, I was driven to watch this movie when I visited Baler. It made me curious about it and the awards it earned at the 2008 Metro Manila Film Festival in which it took home a lot of honors including the Best Picture award. Though, Baler is not a perfect movie, one of which is the unnecessary subplot of a second love team within the story, it was overall well-written, true to the life performances of the actors and has a good story to tell about Philippine history. It was after watching it, I realized that it deserve the awards it won at the 2008 MMFF. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member This one's a bit affecting my intestine... The story flows smooth plus the actors are just stunning... Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member WTF???? Best Picture??? Did MMFF get bribed??!! I can't believe using movie maker can give you a best editing award!!! Terrible Acting!!! That Bravo da puppy never grew! WTF??? Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member A dragging historical movie with an awkward love story thrown in the middle of the chaos. Jericho is the only saving grace. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member A fantastic movie that I saw when I visited Manila in Christmas 2008. Love, war, tragedy,comedy, birth,death it is all there! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member nice movie, great actor and actress, this movie got a whole bunch of awards Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A mixed-race soldier and a Filipino girl fall in love during the Siege of Baler, a war between Spanish soldiers and Filipino forces.
      Director
      Mark Meily
      Producer
      Vic del Rosario Jr., Erwin Genuino
      Screenwriter
      Roy C. Iglesias
      Genre
      Drama, Romance, War
      Original Language
      Tagalog
      Runtime
      1h 56m