Wanted: Perfect Mother

Wanted: Perfect Mother (1970)

Have a love affair with your family...

It tells of a couple, Dante and Elsa who hires a new governess, Carla to care for their four children. The governess quickly establishes rapport with the children and the husband creating rumors of an affair. Before things could go wrong, Carla decides to leave. Elsa dies in a car accident and the widower decides to marry again and getting a new mother to his children. Carla is the popular one among several choices, but the head servant poisons the minds of the children against her.

Date of release
1970-06-14
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
Romance, Comedy, Drama
Director
Lino Brocka

Casting

Interesting facts

Wanted: Perfect Mother is a 1970 Philippine musical melodrama film written and directed by Lino Brocka in his feature directorial debut. It was based on the comics serial by Mars Ravelo. The film starred Dante Rivero, Boots Anson-Roa, and Liza Lorena. It was remade in 1996 starring Regine Velasquez and Christopher de Leon.

Development

In 1970, Brocka was working with the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) as a director when he was approached by Lea Productions about making a film to be entered into the Manila Film Festival. He adapted Ravelo's comic serial of the same name while also borrowing plot elements from the 1965 film The Sound of Music.

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