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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