Menor De Edad
Opens Today, January 23, 2013
In the movie, Meg Imperial plays 15-year-old Jen Guilarman, a third year high school student who leads a lonely, troubled existence in a tenement housing building. She is brought up by a dysfunctional mom (Ara) and her mom's lesbian live-in partner (Jaycee). Jen experiences a hellish life from which she tries to escape. In school, she catches the attention of her Pilipino teacher, Ariel Basco (Wendell), who is himself undergoing a difficult marriage. His wife, Laida, has been in and out of the hospital, diagnosed with cancer of the uterus, and they are saddled with financial problems.
Himself a loner, Ariel is sympathetic to the equally lonely Jen and their counseling sessions lead to a friendship misconstrued by others as more than just platonic. Jen, being the more vulnerable one, imagines herself in love with her teacher and fantasizes about him falling in love with her. So, to experience a sense of belonging, Jen becomes involved with an all-girl gang. She makes new friends and finds love and security in some kind of a family that accepts her for what she is. When Jen is initiated into the girl gang, she has to undergo a sexual rite. She chooses to seduce Ariel but when he rejects her advances, Jen is humiliated and runs away from him. A few minutes later, she is kidnapped by three members of a rival street gang and gang-rapes her. Afraid of the threats made by the real rapists, she, thus, whips up a lie that will change the lives of people around her.
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