Deadma Walking (2017)
Beshies for Life. And Death. And Beyond.
A Palanca-winning comedy about gay best friends for life John and Mark whose friendship is put to the test when one of them has a terminal illness and asks the other to help him stage his fake death, wake, and funeral as his dying wish. The result is a laughfest of "deadly" proportions.
- Date of release
- 2017-12-25
- TMDB
- 8.2 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Director
- Julius Alfonso
Casting
- Joross Gamboa — John Samson
- Edgar Allan Guzman — Mark Caramat
- Dimples Romana — Ate Mary
- Candy Pangilinan — Martha
- Nico Antonio — Peter
- Eugene Domingo — French Woman
- Gerald Anderson — Luke
- Vin Abrenica — Joseph
- Wendell Ramos — Priest
- Bobby Andrews — Dr. Estrallado
- Ricci Chan — Job
- Jojit Lorenzo — Josh
Interesting facts
Deadma Walking is a 2017 Philippine comedy - drama musical film, directed by Julius Alfonso.
Production
Deadma Walking was directed by Julius Alfonso and produced under T-Rex Productions. Eric Cabahug began writing the screenplay of the film in 2014, predating Die Beautiful another film which Deadma Walking has been compared to by two years. Alfonso sees his film as with "more heart" than Die Beautiful and remarks that "the character doesn’t really die" in Deadma Walking while the protagonist in the other film "really dies".
The screenplay of the film won second prize of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2016.
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