Four comediennes stick together in "Apat Dapat, Dapat Apat"
Sunday, October 7, 2007 02:26 PM
Photography: Courtesy of Viva Films
(L-R) Pokwang, Rufa Mae Quinto, Candy Pangilinan, and Eugene
Domingo are four friends who try their luck as domestic helpers in Hong Kong.
But when Candy's character dies, how can the friends escape the wrath of her
bully-husband? Find out in Apat Dapat, Dapat Apat, which will open in
theaters nationwide starting October 10.
Rufa Mae Quinto, Eugene Domingo, Pokwang, and Candy Pangilinan are friends for life and death in the riotous comedy Apat Dapat, Dapat Apat.
Their friendship starts with a life-threatening event. That day, the young Brite (Rufa Mae), Dolly (Eugene), Gay (Pokwang) and Res (Candy) are riding on the same bus that nearly falls off a cliff. Thankfully, they are miraculously saved and the four young girls vow to stay friends for life...and in death! Together forever!
Several years later, we find the four still very much friends with each other in a lower middle-class barangay. Brite now owns a funeral parlor, Dolly is a struggling piano teacher living with her good-for-nothing boyfriend, Gay is a separated MMDA and Res, is now a full-time housewife living with her two kids and perpetually bum husband, Totoy Bato (DJ Durano).
Life has been so hard that Brite suggests they work abroad to earn more money. The three of them agree but Res is quite hesitant about the idea. Yet perhaps it is their fate to stick together. Res's corrupt and "pasaway" parents and brothers are all locked up in a jail, so she has no options left but to join her friends to bail out her family. Totoy Bato allows his wife Res to go with her friends in one condition: that she goes back to him safely after six months of working abroad.
Upon arriving in Hong Kong, their employers pick them up. Brite has a handsome employer who asks her to care for an old bedridden lady who's surprisingly the girlfriend of her employer. Gay has an Indian employer who assigns her to wash his family's turbans. Gay at first thinks it is such an easy job until she finds out that the turbans are exaggeratedly long, enough to bury her alive.
Dolly has a German employer who asks her to baby-sit his three children with German measles. And Res has an Asian employer who, unfortunately, locks her inside a room, never gives her any food, and physically abuses her.
Every Sunday, OFWs meet in a park. That day, the three friends wait for Res, but their friend doesn't show up. They have no idea what happened to her until they find out that Res was killed. Starving for several days, Res ate all her amo's goldfish and as punishment, she was beaten to death. Afraid that Totoy Bato would kill them if he finds out about Res's fate, they decide to bring Res home "alive" at all costs!
Will the three friends get away with their modus operandi? Will Res finally rest in peace? As things get topsy-turvy, the story gets even more riotously funny with Brite, Dolly, Gay and their friend, Res.
Directed by Wenn Deramas and written by Mel del Rosario, Apat Dapat, Dapat Apat will have its celebrity premiere at The Podium on October 8. This Viva Films production will open in theaters nationwide starting October 10.
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