Bitter Melon (2018)
When people say they want apologies, they don't want apologies... they want blood.
When a Filipino-American family reunites for a Christmas party, the holiday takes a dark turn when they conspire to murder the abusive bully of the family.
- Date of release
- 2018-12-07
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Director
- H.P. Mendoza
Casting
- Jon Norman Schneider — Declan
- Patrick Epino — Troy
- Brian Rivera — Moe
- L.A. Renigen — Tiva
- Theresa Navarro — Shelly
- Josephine de Jesus — Prisa
- Amelie Anima — Mina
- Sohr Picart — Divina
- Jonathan Enerva — Boy
- Esperanza Catubig — Jeannie
- Anna Ishida — Lisa
- Corey Jackson — Marcus
Interesting facts
Bitter Melon, is an independent 2018 American dark comedy film written and directed by H.P. Mendoza. It debuted at the 2018 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and was released theatrically by ABS-CBN on December 7, 2018, and on home video by Gravitas Ventures on October 1, 2019. The film's title refers to the tropical vegetable with a bitter flavor known in the Philippines as ampalaya.
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