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The Bet Collector

2006 1h 40m Drama List
40% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 83% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
A woman (Gina Pareño) works for an illegal numbers game in the slums of the Philippines.
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The Bet Collector

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Manohla Dargis New York Times Much like man's best friend, the rough-hewn Filipino movie The Bet Collector chases its protagonist from step to step, misery to misery, all but nipping at her heels. Rated: 2.5/5 Jan 10, 2008 Full Review Aaron Hillis Village Voice More ethnologically remarkable than particularly well-made. Jan 8, 2008 Full Review Russell Edwards Variety While thesp Gina Pareno gives 200% to the titular role, the yarn's meandering tendencies will erode sympathies well before the tacked-on finale arrives. Oct 16, 2006 Full Review Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse “Bet Collector” is an excellent movie that works well as both a drama and a documentary-like presentation of the particular type of life, through a style Brillante Mendoza repeatedly implemented on his most successful movies. Rated: 6.5 Apr 30, 2023 Full Review James Wegg JWR Thoughtful portrait of grief and death. Rated: 3/5 Feb 10, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member This movie is very good. Gina Pareno is very good. The writer of the story is most of all brilliant. It is really about two 'collectors' traversing one neighborhood, 1. Amy, the bet collector and 2. Grim Reaper, the soul collector. The two collectors weren't yet meeting at first but somehow already knew about each other, and were perhaps observing each other's movements. The ending in its subtlety is so good it made the two finally come across each other with great impact, that only viewers who are numb (or dumb) wouldn't get affected and realize the movie's message, that Death when it awakens us we become Life. I could imagine what happened to Amy afterwards, life to her wouldn't have been the same anymore. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Though it seems caged in darkness, Kubrador is a film about hope and despair. And Jeffrey Jeturian must be praised for letting the audience know that we are all similar to his anti-heroine (an outstanding Gina Pareno). We do bad things but we are still good. An amazing cinematography makes the film work but the performance of Ms. Gina Pareno in this drama is one of the best in years. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Good news for the Philippines. 2006 Cinemanila Best Picture [b]KUBRADOR [/b]won the Critic's Prize in the recently concluded Brisbane International Film Festival. This is the 10th best film recognition for the Jeffrey Jeturian masterpiece. [b]Kubrador [/b]is a film about a "jueteng" (an illegal number game) collector. As she goes around the tight streets of Manila, she meets the bettors who desperately put all their hopes into jueteng, wishing that it will bring them out of poverty. Every bettor has a story...and the collector, played by Gina Pareno, is a witness to all of these. After earning money through their hopelessness, she realizes in the end that she herself was hopeless. Visit [url="http://cinemanyak.blogspot.com/"]http://cinemanyak.blogspot.com[/url] for more art film reviews and news. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A woman (Gina Pareño) works for an illegal numbers game in the slums of the Philippines.
Director
Jeffrey Jeturian
Production Co
MLR Films Inc.
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Filipino
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 5, 2016
Runtime
1h 40m
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