Moral

Moral (1982)

Somewhere in this movie you will find yourself.

The episodically connected lives of four college friends unfold throughout the incipient martial law years, as they struggle to define their sexual and professional desires and how best to attain them.

Date of release
1982-12-25
TMDB
7.4 / 10 (10)
Runtime
2h 18m
Genres
Drama
Director
Marilou Diaz-Abaya

Casting

Interesting facts

Moral is a 1982 Filipino coming-of-age drama film directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya and written by Ricky Lee. It is the second in a loose trilogy of feminist films by Diaz-Abaya and Lee which discusses women's issues, along with Brutal (1980) and Karnal (1983). Set in contemporary times in the Philippines, the film stars Lorna Tolentino, Gina Alajar, Sandy Andolong and Anna Marin as a group of friends and follows the course of their lives over the course of several years after they graduate from college.

Production

Diaz-Abaya's 1980 film Brutal, which was also written by Lee and produced by Jesse Ejercito, was not only a critical success but also achieved box-office success at the Metro Manila Film Festival, grossing more than even Ang Panday (1980) featuring action star Fernando Poe Jr. Following that success, Ejercito aimed to produce another film with Diaz-Abaya starring the two main stars of Brutal: Gina Alajar and Amy Austria.

According to director Marilou Diaz-Abaya in the 1983 British documentary episode about the cinema of the Philippines, reported by Tony Rayns, Moral was hit by the censors due to the sequences that were deemed offensive to the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The then-Board of Censors for Motion Pictures ordered 13 cuts to the film and the director submitted the master negative print of the film to the censor board.

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