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Slingshot

Slingshot

Original Title: Tirador

20081h 26m
CrimeDrama

Status

Released

Release

2008

Runtime

1h 26m

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Storyline

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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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 26m
Jul 2, 2008
Languages
Tagalog
Director
Brillante Ma Mendoza
Brillante Ma Mendoza
Production
Centerstage Productions
Centerstage Productions
Production Countries
Philippines

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