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The Debut (2003)
Starring: Dante Basco, Gina Alajar, Tirso Cruz III
Directed by: Gene Cajayon
Genre: Romance
Language: English
Rating: Restricted
Synopsis
Dante Basco plays Ben Mercado, a gifted young high school senior who enrolls in a pretigious art school in order to realize his dreams of becoming an animator. However, his plans come into conflict with those of his immigrant father Roland, a postal worker intent on seeing Ben becoming a doctor. Their long-simmering feud for Ben, a struggle to fit into American life and 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 18th birthday party of Ben’s sister Rose.
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