The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros - Nathan Lopez, Soliman Cruz - DVD |
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SYNOPSIS: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros tells the
story of Maxi (Nathan Lopez) a gay, pre-teen growing up in the slums of Manila,
who is deeply loyal to his family of petty thieves. His world revolves around
his father and two brothers, who love and protect him in return for Maxi’s
devotion to completing domestic chores and covering their tracks when they
commit crimes. When Maxi meets Victor (JR Valentin) a well-meaning, handsome
policeman, the two become fast friends and Maxi begins to learn that he can have
a better life, which soon incurs the ire and disapproval of Maxi’s family.
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Your
"Gay-Dar" will be off the charts when you see this well acted movie from The
Philippines (our first for this site)! Maximo is an
effeminate looking, and acting, 12-year-old sexually confused, cross dressing
Filipino boy living in the slums of Manila! Although he's obviously
gay (and proud of it) Maximo prefers the company of girls, and fits in
quite well with them! In fact, at times it is hard to tell that he is actually
a boy. There is only one exception to the rule of hanging around only with
girls: if Victor is around, Maxi's full attention, and free time,
goes to him. Victor is a local policeman Maxi meets one night
when he foils an attempted "rape" of Maximo by some older boys.
Victor, the knight in shining armor, becomes a mentor; a hero to young
Maximo but one his criminal parents would rather not see hanging around.
This digitally-shot feature
made its U.S. debut at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was the
official Philippine entry of the 2007 Academy Awards® for Best
Foreign Language film. The film has also garnered several film festival
awards including the Teddy Award at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival
and Best Asian Film at the 2006 Rotterdam Film Festival.
Nathan Lopez plays Maximo and does a wonderful job! An interesting
fact to take note of is that Nathan's twin brother also auditioned for
the role of Maximo.

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* This DVD will play
in North America only. This DVD
should play in most players outside of North America as well, but it's not
guaranteed. This DVD will play in any computer DVD-Rom. This is NOT a
DVD-R.
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STARRING:
Nathan Lopez, Soliman Cruz, Ping Medina, Bodjie
Pascua.
AVAILABILITY:
In stock! Ships within one business day.
LENGTH: 100
minutes.
LANGUAGE:
Tagalog, with ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
SPECIAL
FEATURES:
1.78:1 (16:9 Widescreen); 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo; 1 disc;
Photo gallery; Commentary; Chapter selection;
Previews; Trailer; Uncut.
VIEWER
DISCRETION: Brief nudity, sexual innuendo, coarse
language, violence.
PICTURE QUALITY: Excellent picture quality. (what's this mean?)
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
Philippines (2005).
ALSO KNOWN AS: Pagdadalaga
ni Maximo Oliveros, Ang (original title).
DATE ADDED TO OUR LIBRARY: August 24, 2007 (pre-sale), August 28, 2007
(official release day).
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