Special Achievement Award. Los Angeles Cinema Indios Festival An intimate good-humored ethnic comedy! -- Kevin Thomas, Writer (Los Angeles Times) starring: Christopher De Leon Dina Bonnevie Ricky Davao Cherry Pie Picache Paolo Montalban Filmed in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island, American Adobo is a movie as tasty as the dish. It centers on the lives of 5 Filipino-Americans over the course of an eventful year. American Adobo is truly a film that will appeal not only to Filipinos but to other cultural groups as well as those who try to preserve their curtoms but at the same time adapt to their new homeland. Set in the Big Apple, it deals ith the daily struggles of Americanized Pinoys who try to assimilate western culture into their Filipino heritage. |
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