Mano Po 4: Ako Legal Wife (Chinese: 合法妻; pinyin: Héfǎ qī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ha̍p-hoat chhe) is a 2005 Filipino comedy-drama film produced by Regal Entertainment, and an entry to the 2005 Metro Manila Film Festival. The film focuses on the lives of the Chinese-Filipino community, but rather in a comedic way unlike in the first three Mano Po installments which are used in a melodramatic way. It stars Jay Manalo, Zsa Zsa Padilla as Chona the Legal Wife, Cherry Pie Picache as Patty the Lucky Wife and Rufa Mae Quinto as Gloria the Latest Wife. The title is considered as the fourth installment of the Mano Po film series and was based on the line of Zsa Zsa Padilla in Mano Po 2: My Home; “Ako legal wife!” (lit. “I am [the] legal wife!”).[1][2][3]
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Directed by | Joel Lamangan |
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Produced by | Lily Y. Monteverde |
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Cinematography | Rolly Manuel |
Edited by | Marya Ignacio |
Music by | Vincent De Jesus |
Production company | Regal Multimedia Inc. |
Distributed by | Regal Entertainment |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
Country | Philippines |
Language | Filipino |
Apart from the other Mano Po films, it is the first film in the series to use comedic elements since three of the films in the series centered on perplex drama.
Elton Chiong is a businessman having three wives. Chona, a pure Chinese is his legal wife having three children, Hamilton who is a homosexual, Hibiscus and Anthurium; Patty, who is a Chinese with having a Visayan accent. She gives good luck to Elton, with their only son Nixon; and Gloria, a Filipino is Elton's mistress.
At the 2005 Metro Manila Film Festival, Padilla took the award for Best Actress and Picache won the award for Best Supporting Actress.[citation needed]
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