My Perfect You

My Perfect You
Theatrical Release Poster
Directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina
Produced by
Screenplay by
Story by Carmi Raymundo
Starring
Music by Jessie Lasaten
Cinematography Noel Teehankee
Edited by Marya Ignacio
Production
company
Distributed by Star Cinema
Release date
  • March 14, 2018 (2018-03-14)
Running time
 121 minutes
Country Philippines
Language Filipino
English
Box office ₱136 Million
(as of March 31, 2018)

My Perfect You is a 2018 Philippine romantic comedy-drama film directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina, produced and distributed by Star Cinema. Starring Gerald Anderson and Pia Wurtzbach. This is Pia Wurtzbach's next film after Gandarrapiddo: The Revenger Squad, which was released theatrically on December 25, 2017. The story is about Burn (Gerald Anderson), a man who's down in the dumps, and Abi (Pia Wurtzbach), the girl who helps him see the light again. The film was released on March 14, 2018.

Plot

The story is about Burn Toledo (Gerald Anderson) who loses his perfect life after being ignored by his girlfriend Angel (Marlann Flores) on his marriage proposal to her. Until he ran away to a far place where he ends up crashing his car from the tree by the time he was talking to his boss (Paolo O'Hara) from his cellphone. Elsewhere, he ends up in the remote resort named Happy Sunshine Camp and accidentally met Abi (Pia Wurtzbach) who is the owner of the resort that makes him angry from her annoyance for being as an all around job in the remote resort. Burn soon apologizes for his rash and awful behavior to her and with the help of Bubut (Wilma Doesnt), Handres (Janus Del Prado) and Lucky (Darwin Tolentino), Burn decides to fix the resort back to its formal shape as a payment for his debt and starts to have a bond with Abi when he spends time with her.

In reality, Burn is revealed to had a schizophrenia after his car was crashed into the tree and is immediately taken to the hospital for his injuries sustained on his head. He was currently treated by his mental doctor and friend Aris (RJ Ledesma) as he told his father Roel (Tonton Gutierrez) and his older sister Ellaine (Dimples Romana) about his mental illness. Roel angrily refused to treat his son's illness since his wife died with the same illness as his son's. Burn also has psychotic episodes towards his father Roel when he angrily attempts to snap him out in reality and he angrily states that Abi is present indicating that Abi and her friends that he had met at the Happy Sunshine Camp were imaginary.

During the grand opening of Happy Sunshine Camp, Burn finally faces the reality that Abi, her friends and the people whom they called as their first visitors of the remote resort were imaginary which he was soon rescued by Ellaine when he was drowning at the bathtub the whole time as his mental condition is getting worse prompting Roel to convince Aris to cure his son from his mental illness. As soon as Burn treated his mental illness while erasing the memories of Abi and her friends at the hospital, Burn finally say goodbye to Abi as they parted ways and Burn recovers from his mental illness after six months of treatment and reunites with his family.

The next day while spending time with his family including Tetet (Xia Vigor), his older sister Ellaine informs him to meet a certain person at the coffee shop. On the way, Burn sees two other people which is the same people he had met at the Happy Sunshine Camp until he encounters the certain person he was supposed to meet was actually Bie a look a like of Abi who currently works as the barista to serve Burn's coffee at the coffee shop. Since Burn's memory of Abi was removed so meeting Bie looks like familiar to him. Burn finally introduces himself to Bie and he smiles to meet her in person.

Cast

Main Cast

Supporting Cast

Production

On January 18, 2018, Star Cinema announced that Pia Wurtzbach is set to do a new film with Gerald Anderson after her successful MMFF film Gandarrapiddo: The Revenger Squad with Vice Ganda and Daniel Padilla. It was announced Thursday shortly after a story conference where the lead stars were in attendance. The film will be helmed by box-office director Cathy Garcia-Molina.[1]

The filming started on January 25, 2018. Anderson and Wurtzbach were spotted in Kidz Pool Resort at Coto,Masinloc,Zambales where the film was taken.[2]

On March 2, 2018, Star Cinema finally released the official theatrical trailer and poster of My Perfect You.

Release

My Perfect You premiered in Philippine cinemas on March 14, 2018. Released in 200 Cinemas earning 10 million on its opening day.[3] It is also released on some selected countries.

Critical response

Oggs Cruz of Rappler stated Director Cathy Garcia-Molina is currently the Philippines' foremost crafter of escapist fantasies.

She, however, doesn't peddle her works as portraits of possible realities. She's aware that her stories are diversions to the drastically harsher lives of her film's audience, populating her perfect love stories with women who are obviously wearing outrageous wigs, seemingly in an effort to highlight the fact that nothing in the films' fairy tale endings can be farther from the truth.

My Perfect You appears to be the strangest in Garcia-Molina's filmography, even stranger than My Only Ü (2008), which had the characters played by Vhong Navarro and Toni Gonzaga commit to a romance even in the afterlife.

What makes My Perfect You stand out is how it isn't exactly a love story but an examination of Burn, played excellently by Gerald Anderson, a man desperate for an escape from the many problems that ail his life. The film opens with him running away from his family, hurriedly driving to an unknown destination until he swerves into a ravine trying to avoid hitting a pedestrian who suddenly appears in the middle of the road. He gets out of his damaged car and finds himself in a decrepit resort managed by overeager and endlessly optimistic Abi, played by surprisingly soulful Miss Universe winner-turned-actress Pia Wurtzbach.[4]

References

  1. ↑ (January 18, 2018). . ABS-CBN News. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ (January 25, 2018). . ABS-CBN News. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Pia-Gerald movie earns P10 million on opening day". ABS-CBN News. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "'My Perfect You' review: Glossy romantic escape". Rappler. 20 March 2018.
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