Dolphy in "Nobody, Nobody But Juan"
A film in Tagalog
Date: 2/13/2010
Time: 1, 4 & 7pm
General Admission: $18
External Link: Trailer
*All tickets include a $2 Historic Preservation Surcharge Shown In Tagalog Without Subtitles
NOBODY, NOBODY BUT JUAN
DOLPHY
EDDIE GARCIA
JOE ALDEGUER
GLORIA ROMERO
ERIC QUIZON
Comedy, Unrated, Runing Time: 1:50
Starring Dolphy, Filipino King of Comedy and celebrating his 65 years in Show Business.
Juan is the Filipino everyman: Juan de la Cruz.
The name sounds incredibly like the pronoun "one."
To be "the one" is to be singularly unique.
You're "number one" means you're the best, the most important, the highest ranked, in a list or an area of activity.
Dolphy is "number one."
And so is Wowowee on The Filipino Channel, aired three times daily around the globe.
Wowowee features the unabashedly emotional homeland Pinoy: a father cries because his cell phone has conked out and it's the only way to get in touch with a son working in Dubai, then cries all the more when Wowowee host Willie Revillame replaces the cell phone; a mother is desperate because there is no money for a new nurse's uniform in time for her daughter's capping ceremony, then speechless when Papi Willie not only doles out money for the uniform but sponsors the family dinner the day of the rites - we know the sob stories and their variations only too well, we imagine how the anecdotes remind Filipinos abroad of those they've left behind.
Wowowee has become an addiction for the Filipino diaspora. It is on this fact that our film narrative is premised, for briefly, Juan is about how a post-vaudeville stage comedian and hoofer presently based in the US is able to fulfill a promise made to a colleague way back in the Liberation of Manila, through Wowowee.
But there's more to Juan than the basic plot.
It's love and friendship. Success and failure. Family.
It's coming to terms with being Filipino.
All told through a combination of black-and-white flashbacks to the era of live stage revues in one of the theaters that used to line Avenida Rizal intercutting with two main locations that make up the bigger present-day component of the narrative: the US, where the main protagonist now resides, and ABS-CBN, where Wowowee is broadcast.
Juan.
Shown In Tagalog Without Subtitles