Filipino director Brillante Mendoza fails to disguise his prurient exploitation film, about a family-run soft-core cinema, as art house fare — although he seems to have succeeded in doing so with Cannes and New York film festival programmers.
In Angeles City the Pineda family sustains itself with tickets sold to their "Family"-titled cinema operated by matriarch Nanay Flor (Gina Pareno).
Flor's daughter Nayda (Jaclyn Jose), and nephews Alan (Coco Martin) and Ronald (Kristofer King) spend much of their time engaging in sex acts that make up the film's negligible excuse for a plot buffered by Flor's bigamy court case against her husband.
Gay hookers use the cinema to "service" their Johns; the activity seems to be the only economically sound option in the depressed neighborhood.
This isn't a place you want to visit.
