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TOTO

By John Paul SU

Drama - Completed 2016

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Drama, Family, Black comedy
- Countries
- PHILIPPINES
- Languages
- TAGALOG, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 115 mn
- Director(s)
- John Paul SU
- Synopsis
- ANTONIO “TOTO” ESTARES comes from Tacloban, Philippines, a place ravaged by Typhoon Yolanda. His mother has cancer. He works at a hotel in Manila, and tries every which way to get to the U.S. so he can support his family – which he’s been doing since his father died and left them penniless. His father had made it to Las Vegas to become a stage act and promised to petition his family, but he ended up a dishwasher who drank and gambled away everything. The only thing Toto inherited from his father is the obsession of the dream, which he has forged into his own, and is intent on fulfilling it, because it was also once his mother’s hope.