Metro Manila (2013) on Netflix
Oscar Ramirez's rice farm in Banaue no longer supports his family, so they move to Metro Manila. He is hired as a security officer for an armored truck company.
- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb7.6/109,664 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes94%
Trailer
Plot summary
Oscar Ramirez farms rice in Banaue, in the northern Philippines, until the crops stop paying. He brings his wife Mai and their children to Metro Manila hoping for something better. A cheap room they rent proves a swindle, and the police remove them from the building as squatters. The family settles in a vacant shack in the slums of Tondo. Manila Armored Couriers takes Oscar on as a security officer once the guards learn of his military past. His first shifts are spent with Douglas Ong, a senior officer whose earlier partner died in a robbery six months before. Worried about where the family lives, Ong offers them an empty apartment of his in Makati. Mai finds work at a nightclub there.
Cast
- Iasha Aceioas Baby Ramirez
- Mario Vistoas Banaue Rice Traders
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Metro Manila (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Sean Ellis got the idea for Metro Manila on his first trip to the Philippines, when he saw two armoured truck drivers arguing with each other.
- The story of the character Alfred Santos is based on the real hijacking of Philippine Airlines Flight 812 on 25 May 2000.
- Sean Ellis shot Metro Manila on a Canon EOS 5D DSLR camera, and although the script was written in English, he encouraged his Filipino cast to interpret their lines in Filipino.
- After Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda hit the Philippines and killed close to 6000 people, Metro Manila was re-released in special screenings to raise money for the victims.
