D'Lucky Ones - By: Richard A Stooker

D'Lucky Ones is one of those oddball, low budget comedies that still fill movie theaters in The Philippines.

Hollywood would never make this movie, not because Americans have so much better tastes in films, but because it now costs too much to make B films (as they used to churn out in droves). That's television's job.

Two best friends are both avid fans of actress Vilma Santos. They know her movies by heart. When one takes a job in South Korea, they promise that her daughter will marry the other one's son when they both are old enough.

They name the girl Lucky Girl and the boy Lucky Boy after one of Vilma's children, Luis "Lucky" Manzano.

Of course they don't consult the children, who hate each other because of an incident they both remember differently, at a party when they were both young.

When the one friend returns to The Philippines with her daughter, the girl is determined to get her revenge on Lucky Boy. What follows is a typical screwball sequence of events and misunderstandings.

Lucky Girl winds up staying in the same apartment with Lucky Boy, to hide out from her mother and her plans to marry the girl to Lucky Boy, and doesn't understand who Lucky Boy is, and gradually starts to fall in love with him.

Lucky Boy, however, is working hard to get his revenge on Lucky Girl. He even gets her arrested for picking flowers at the entrance to Lunetta (Rizal Park). Considering the things that go on in the park, you'd think the police would have other things to worry about besides picking flowers, but it's funny just for that.

Then there's the silly subplot where the two friends, while trying to search for Lucky Girl, somehow fall in with a handsome young man, and both of them are fighting each other for his attention. It's clear that he has no romantic interest in either one, who are both old enough to be his mother, but he's hanging around as a friend.

The two mothers go to a bar and join in a dance contest to impress the young man. They make their two children look incredibly mature by comparison.

There's one intense scene between Lucky Girl and her mother where Lucky Girl learns that her South Korean father abused her mother, and all the inlaws hated her because she was Filipino rather than Korean. Many times they would not allow her stay in the house with her daughter, but she begged for food on the streets. Watching Vilma Santos movies was her escape from this reality. This may also make Lucky Girl rethink her preference for living in South Korea over The Philippines (she'd been planning to return to the only country she knew as home. Heck, she only knew how to speak Tagalog from her mother forcing her to watch Vilma Santos movies.)

The ending is obvious. Send the Vilma Santos fans to a Vilma Santos reunion party and get Ate Vi (Older Sister Vi) to patch up the two friends. And then everybody gets to dance. Hey, it's The Philippines.

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