Deathrow

Having strung along with delinquent friends to a home robbery that ends in a wealthy old woman's death, Manila slum youth Sonny is too stunned to get away while the others elude police capture. He's duly convicted of murder - worse, as an adult, since the orphan boy's birth certificate was lost in a fire, and his callous foster parents are nowhere to be found. Thrown into lockup among hardened lifers, the terrified 16-year-old soon finds himself at the mercy of various strong-arm cliques on death row. He's courted by booty-bandit Gabino, who plots to seize cell block "mayor" Mio's status as chief executor of the in-house drug trade controlled by rich prisoner Assunta. A few figures take a more protective than exploitive interest in the new fish. But Sonny's best ally, it turns out, is old-school gangster Sinat, who at 77 is still gruff and imposing enough to survive outside all the block's warring factions. He also has the support of distant relative Gina, a church-sponsored legal ...

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 330321
  • Status Released
  • Released Philippines December 25, 2000 Canada September 13, 2001 (Toronto International Film Festival) Egypt October 1, 2001 (Cairo International Film Festival) South Korea November 10, 2001 (Pusan International Film Festival) France March 7, 2002 (Deauville Asian Film Festival) Australia August 1, 2002 (Melbourne International Film Festival) Finland September 21, 2002 (Helsinki International Film Festival)
  • Content Rating Singapore M18 Great Britain 18
  • Runtime 118 minutes
  • Genres Action Crime Drama
  • Original Country Philippines
  • Original Language English
  • Production Company GMA Pictures
  • Distributor GMA Pictures
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