here another culture inspire indie movie about filipino that and well and laugh and love and make food and talk about social issue of be filipino american and and get all heartbroken and stuff . while i do not mind any of that ( and indeed be willing to watch this movie ) and still and i find the character to be weak and mostly fall into type . the range include the activist sell out and closet gay man and womanizer and neurotic old maid and and unhappy society woman . of these character and the only one even remotely interesting be the womanizer because he at least seem like he have a backbone . the rest come up with the most contrived and unproductive reason to make themselves unhappy so that they can hide their individual nature behind discussion about filipino culture and which if you think about it isn not a very valuable way to approach it . i do not know how big the filipino american market for this movie be consider a certain line of dialog and probably not that big and with much bad movie . i find the good part of this movie be the part that actually engage with the character culture instead of use it a an excuse to get all sappy and and i actually rather enjoy the way the dialog go back and forth between filipino and english almost breathlessly . i would like to see someone take that way of deliver dialog and make a good and more flesh out movie about it . this one suffer too much from cling to recognizable type . polarisdib .