Film

Rotonda

2006

Beginning at the break of dawn and ending the next morning, the story, set around a rugged city intersection, follows the path of a marked one-thousand-peso bill as it transfers from one character to another, returning to its originator in the end, blood-tainted. The money leads us to each of the five offbeat characters, all in desperate need of their soul's redemption: a disillusioned tabloid reporter planning to commit suicide in a motel, a nightclub dancer con prostitute who has avowed to give her kid sister a better life, a fallen henchman resurfacing to score big time, a chronic runaway teenage girl held captive as sex slave by a cop, and a long-suffering son bearing a sadomasochistic relationship with his brutish, half-paralyzed father who behaves like a mad dictator in his wheelchair.

Shamaine Buencamino

Celso Ad. Castillo

Soliman Cruz

Mike Dagñalan

Perry Dizon

Chona Fernando

Emilio Garcia

Mark Gil

Simon Ibarra

Mario Magallona

Miguel Pancho

Epy Quizon

Ces San Agustin

Roence Santos

Meryll Soriano

• Ron BryantScreenplay · Director
• Rodolfo Aves Jr.Director of Photography

Release date

July 18, 2006

Status

Released

Original language

Filipino