Love Child

Love Child (2024)

A young couple navigates the challenges of raising their autistic son in an increasingly unforgiving world, testing their love and resilience.

Date of release
2024-08-02
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Romance, Comedy, Drama
Director
Jonathan Jurilla

Casting

Interesting facts

Love Child is a 2024 Philippine romantic comedy-drama film starring RK Bagatsing, Jane Oineza, and John Tyrron Ramos which was directed by Jonathan Jurilla. It about a young couple who would learn that their son has autism.

Production

Love Child is a co-production of Regal Entertainment with Southern Lantern Studios. It was directed and written by Jonathan Jurilla. This is Jurilla's directorial debut. It was produced by Sonny Calvento and Arden Rod Condez, with Calvento as the screenwriter.

The film was based on Jurilla's own experience on being a father of a son with autism spectrum disorder. It deviates from the usual trope of portraying autistic people as savant who discovers and untapped talent or a film which ends in a "happy ending" according to the director. It depicts the challenges of an autistic child and his family living in Filipino society.

Principal photography for Love Child took place in Jurilla's home province of Negros Occidental particularly in Bacolod, Silay and Talisay.

The parents in the film were depicted by romantic couple Jane Oineza and RK Bagatsing who have described their experience in acting in the film as a "free trial" to parenthood.

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