The Debut R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 9, 2003
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Eddie Garcia & Dante Basco | |
Performer: | Tirso Cruz III, Gina Alajar & Dion Basco | |
Directed by | Gene Cajayon | |
Screenwriting by | Gene Cajayon & John Manal Castro |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Celebrates community and family, and does so in such a warm-hearted way that its formulaic nature is easily forgiven.
Seattle Times
The film has a sweet low-budget quality that sometimes slips into TV-movie schmaltz.
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Village Voice
Rating: 2.5/5 --
That it feels so predictable is, ironically, a tribute to the universality of the experience it explores.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/4 --
Predictable but heartfelt, and valuable in that it is one of the first Filipino-American productions.
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Compuserve
Rating: B- --
For all its familiarity, The Debut (an unfortunately bland and vague title) is a film from the heart...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Rating: 3/5 --
A neat blend of well-drawn major characters and drama, music, dance, romance and humor that generates considerable charm and achieves a heartwarming resolution of its generational conflict.
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New York Times
Director Gene Cajayon, with co-writer John Manal Castro and a charming cast, continually subverts expectations.
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L.A. Weekly
Product Description:
Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The eighteenth birthday party of Ben's sister, Rose, sets off a comedic and touching series of events and family struggles that will in turn determine young Ben's future. This fresh independent production from Gene Cajayon presents a lighthearted and warm coming-of-age tale filtered through the eyes of an American subculture rarely seen on film.