Slingshot (2008)
Overview
A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau about life for the lowest of the low in the Philippines poorest and most crime-ridden districts. National elections are coming up so in the usual attempt to appear “tough-on-crime”, The Big Boys have been sent into crack down on the the local squatters, thieves and miscreants who litter the film like broken bottle. And since no sweep is ever a clean sweep, the cops brutal shock-force tactics quickly ripple outwards with jagged repurcussions.
Cast
Jiro Manio
Odie
Coco Martin
Caloy
Kristoffer King
Rex
Nathan Lopez
Leo
Jaclyn Jose
Julio Díaz
Simon Ibarra
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