The Child

The Child

The Child

Watch Trailer Watch Movie

Share

The Child

2000

2h 15m

6.5(10 votes)

Drama

Overview

A woman returns to the Philippines after working abroad to find that her family has fallen apart in her absence.

Links & Resources

Social & External

Production Companies

Star Cinema – ABS-CBN Film Productions

Videos & Trailers

1 video

Cast & Crew

27 members

Acting

Vilma Santos

Josie

Vilma Santos

Acting

Claudine Barretto

Carla

Claudine Barretto

Acting

Joel Torre

Rudy

Joel Torre

Acting

Baron Geisler

Michael

Baron Geisler

Acting

Amy Austria

Lyn

Amy Austria

Acting

Cherry Pie Picache

Mercy

Cherry Pie Picache

Acting

Sheila Mae Alvero

Daday

No Image

Acting

Leandro Muñoz

Brian

Leandro Muñoz

Acting

Tess Dumpit

Norma

Tess Dumpit

Acting

Cris Michelena

Arnel

No Image

Acting

Hazel Ann Mendoza

Young Carla

No Image

Acting

Daniel Morial

Young Michael

No Image

Acting

Gino Paul Guzman

Don Don

No Image

Acting

Jodi Sta. Maria

Bernadette

Jodi Sta. Maria

Acting

Odette Khan

Mrs. Madrid

Odette Khan

Acting

Troy Martino

Al

No Image

Acting

John Lapus

Sing-Along Bar Host 1

John Lapus

Directing

Jojo Saguin

Sing-Along Bar Host 2

No Image

Acting

Archie Adamos

Mercy's husband

Archie Adamos

Acting

Jiro Manio

Jason

Jiro Manio

Acting

Don Laurel

Lester

Don Laurel

Acting

Manny Mendoza

Lyn's Cousin

No Image

Acting

Aida Espiritu

Teacher

No Image

Acting

Girlie Alcantara

Tess

No Image

Acting

Jessette Prospero

Elma

No Image

Acting

Lui Villaruz

Bully

Lui Villaruz

Acting

Sarji Ruiz

Bully

No Image

Similar Movies

Braveheart

Braveheart

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Léon: The Professional

Léon: The Professional

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

The Godfather

The Godfather

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Natural Born Killers

Natural Born Killers

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

As We Were

As We Were

Set at the turn of the 20th century during the Filipino revolution against the Spaniards and, later, the American colonizers, it follows a naive peasant through his leap of faith to become a member of an imagined community.

A Speck in the Water

A Speck in the Water

Ferry owner Benjamin has a regular passenger, Chedeng, who is studying to become a midwife. Chedeng has a friend and neighbour, Maria, and without either of them knowing about it they both have a relationship with Benjamin. When Mary finds out she’s pregnant, things get difficult.

Three Years Without God

Three Years Without God

Set during World War II, Rosario, a school teacher, enters a forbidden relationship with a Japanese soldier, Masugi.

Ang Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa

Ang Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa

A strange but beautiful young woman washed ashore on an island becomes the desire of all men. Her presence causes jealousy, intrigue, and a series of deaths in the town.

Totoy Boogie

Owners of an old dance studio's and veterans in vodaville. Failure to reach their dreams of becoming a famous dancing duo, poured all the desired gain sole son Sonny. Due to the inherited skills from parents, became a dance instructor in their studio.

Pag-asa

Pag-asa

A story about Celing and her kid brother Pidingare recently orphaned and they come to Manila to find work in the home of their late parents' hacienda landlord. But they are treated miserably by the landlord's ill-tempered wife, Doña Esperanza.

Muse of Pasig

Muse of Pasig

It is a supernatural melodrama of a woman's misfortune and suffering interwoven with the legend of the Pasig. The legend itself is inspired by the immortal kundiman of the director's brother, Nicanor Abelardo.

Metropolis

Metropolis

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Melody

Melody

A young man returns to a place that no longer feels like home. Along the way, old melodies echo through memories he can’t outrun.

Everest

Everest

Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

Layang Bilanggo

Layang Bilanggo

An aging assassin hides in a facility for abandoned senior citizens to protect a daughter he left years ago.

Of the Flesh

Of the Flesh

When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity, betrayal, guilt and redemption.

Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.

Ekis

Ekis

Gene works for the local underworld syndicate but always treats his abductees with kindness. He begins a dangerous affair with ex-bar girl Dolor, who's routinely beaten by her rich husband. When the cops move in on Gene's gang and Dolor's husband winds up dead, the couple flees with the law and their enemies in hot pursuit.

Things We Lost in the Fire

Things We Lost in the Fire

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

Finding You

Finding You

Love in the time of hyperthymesia.

Recommended Movies

Sorry, Wrong Number

Sorry, Wrong Number

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

Premonition

Premonition

A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.

Family Romance, LLC

Family Romance, LLC

Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.

Othello

Othello

Manipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy.

Breathe In

Breathe In

When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.

Black or White

Black or White

A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

Unrelated

Unrelated

A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.

The Gift

The Gift

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

Riceboy Sleeps

Riceboy Sleeps

In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in South Korea.

One & Two

One & Two

In an isolated farmhouse, located in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by a mysterious wooden wall, Zac and Eva, two siblings gifted with extraordinary abilities, endure every day the wrath of their strict father while witnessing how a cruel sickness lurks their beloved mother.

Manchester by the Sea

Manchester by the Sea

After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Minari

Minari

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

Interiors

Interiors

When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata, a successful writer; Joey, a woman crippled by indecision; and Flyn, a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman, his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate…

Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

Still Mine

Still Mine

Craig, a fiercely determined New Brunswick farmer, sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife, Irene, despite their children's concerns. As he starts building, he is blindsided by the bureaucratic codes and officials. As Irene becomes increasingly ill, Craig fights back. Based on a true story.

The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.

I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.