The Debut (2000)

Directors

Gene Cajayon

Cast

Dante Basco, Dion Basco, Eddie Garcia, Gina Alajar, Joy Bisco, Tirso Cruz III

The story

Ben Mercado is a talented high school senior who enrolls in a prestigious arts institute in order to realize his dreams of becoming an artist. However, his plans come into conflict with those of his strict immigrant father Roland, a postal worker intent on seeing Ben become a doctor. Their long-simmering feud—for Ben, a struggle to be accepted by America and therefore reject his Filipino heritage; and for Roland, a quest to give his children a better life than he had—threatens to boil over and ruin the elaborate eighteenth birthday party of Ben's sister Rose.

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