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Slingshot

2008-07-02 · 86 min · ★ 5.4

Crime · Drama

A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau about life for the lowest of the low in the Philippines poorest and most crime-ridden districts. National elections are coming up so in the usual attempt to appear “tough-on-crime”, The Big Boys have been sent into crack down on the the local squatters, thieves and miscreants who litter the film like broken bottle. And since no sweep is ever a clean sweep, the cops brutal shock-force tactics quickly ripple outwards with jagged repurcussions.

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Directors
Brillante Ma Mendoza
Production companies
Centerstage Productions
Countries
Philippines
Status
Released

Top Cast

Jiro ManioJiro ManioOdie
Coco MartinCoco MartinCaloy
Kristoffer KingKristoffer KingRex
Nathan LopezNathan LopezLeo
Jaclyn JoseJaclyn Jose
Julio DíazJulio Díaz
Simon IbarraSimon Ibarra

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