Butanding
5.5
2016
0 hr 30 min
Drama
An environmentally conscious movie about Butanding, or whale shark.
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- Cast：
- Precious Lara Quigaman , Rey "PJ" Abellana
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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
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