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Vice Ganda, Jun Robles Lana Talk Family Drama ‘And The Breadwinner Is…’: “A Funny Movie That Will Slap You In The Face With The Truth”


Christmas release, starring Vice as an overseas Filipino worker, is a "funny movie that will slap you in the face with the truth".

Lana, who runs The IdeaFirst Company with producer-director Perci Intalan, has a varied set of credits ranging from mainstream hit comedies, including Becky And Badette, Big Night! But Vice and Lana also explain how breadwinners sacrifice their own ambitions and bear a huge amount of responsibility for their families, sometimes working overseas for years and then questioning their identity and purpose in life when they finally return home. Vice hopes this new film will make the audience laugh but also send a message about respecting and honoring the hard work of their relatives, whatever their sexuality, and on a more practical note, how to manage the overseas remittances they receive: “A lot of Filipinos are not that familiar with financial literacy.

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