Tony de Guzman is an anti-hero. Life, according to him, is short, brutal. It’s never on your side. Grab what you can, when you can. Settle scores. Be randy. Defy the rules. Cheat the system. Toughen it out. Tony knows nothing but tough times living, as he does, in the bleak circus of the slums he calls home. This is his story and the story of the world he lives in: a hopeless, closed-in decrepit world gone to seed. MONDOMANILA is an unflinching and unflinchingly funny look at life in the underbelly of the urban diaspora … with songs.
Tony knows nothing but tough times, living in the bleak circus of the slums he calls home amongst denizens of the underworld: the crippled pimp, the lonely housewife, the neighborhood gay and his macho father, the prostitutes, the small-time politician, and the Yankee pedophile. This is his story and the story of the world he lives in: a hopeless, closed-in decrepit world gone to seed.
Director: Khavn
Writers: Khavn, Norman Wilwayco
Stars: Timothy Castillo, Marife Necesito, Jim Rocky Tangco, Jonathan Reyes, Stefan Punongbayan, Alex Tiglao, Tony Hunt, Palito, Rodney Aquino, Whitney Tyson, Dante Perez, Paulo Vicente, Raymart Tangco, Manuel ‘Bonbon’ Valerozo, Rey Miyano, Jaime Cuales, Clarissa Almoguera, Mary Jane Bernaldez