Featured Philippine Travel Destination in the Movie

1. Boracay - Boracay’s two primary tourism beaches, White Beach and Bulabog Beach, are located on opposite sides of the island’s narrow central area. White Beach faces westwards and Bulabog Beach faces eastwards. The island also has several other beaches.

Title: When Love Begins
Director: Jose Javier Reyes
Genre: Drama | Romance
Cast: Aga Muhlach
Anne Curtis
Boots Anson-Roa
Jon Avila
A.J. Dee
Christopher De Leon
Desiree Del Valle
Gemma Fitzgerald
Angel Jacob
Davey Langit
Jennifer Lee
Alma Lerma
Dionne Monsanto
Madeleine Nicolas
Mandy Ochoa
Mickey Perz
Dimples Romana
Rafael Rosell
Riza Santos
Ronaldo Valdez

While on vacation in beautiful Boracay, environmentalist Ben (Aga Muhlach) and marketing assistant Michelle (Anne Curtis) fall madly in love. It’s too bad that Ben is noncommittal while Michelle’s afr…( read more read more… )aid of getting her heart torn apart. More troubles begin to surface when his work pits him directly against her company, which is owned by her land developer father.

The heiress to a real estate development fortune slowly starts a relationship with a lawyer turned environmentalist, despite both of them being completely afraid of commitment. But even as they crawl out of their shells, the two find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict over one of the real estate deals of the girl’s father.

Does the enamored pair stand a chance? Joey Reyes wrote and directed this romantic drama.

Featured Philippine Travel Destination in the Movie

1. Pasig River Ferry Service - The ferry service was inaugurated by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on February 14, 2007 with five stations operating which includes Escolta, PUP, Sta. Ana, Hulo and Guadalupe. After a year, the entire system grew from 5 stations to 14 stations with more stations still being constructed.

2. Paco Park / Cemetery - is a 4,114.80 square meter recreational garden area and was once Manila’s municipal cemetery during the Spanish colonial period. It is located along General Luna St. and at the east end of Padre Faura Street in Paco district in the City of Manila, the Philippines.

3. Divisoria - is a market district in the heart of the City of Manila known for its wide assortment of low-priced goods and wholesale and bargain shopping. Clothes, accessories, toys, novelties, decorations, pirated films and music, electronics, fruits, dry goods, school, office and household supplies, fabrics, textiles, crafts, novelties, decorations and “everything under the sun” can be found in Divisoria, making it “the mecca of value shopping” and “the mother of all markets in Manila.” It is considered one of the National Capital Region’s premiere economic centers, as street shops, tiangge-style bazaars and shopping malls are all found here. The district touches different parts of the city including Binondo, Tondo and San Nicolas.

Title: Miss You Like Crazy
Director: Cathy Garcia - Molina
Genre: Drama | Romance
Cast: Bea Alonzo
John Lloyd Cruz
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tirso Cruz III
Malou de Guzman
Ryan Eigenmann
Ketchup Eusebio
Ina Feleo
Dianne Medina
Maricar Reyes
Bembol Roco
Noel Trinidad
Jun Urbano

Synopsis from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611914/

Filipinos have prided themselves in giving clever names to their businesses. If only that wit was shared by local mainstream filmmakers. Or at least by their works’ titles. John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo — along with rom-com go-to director Cathy Garcia-Molina — in essence return from where they left off in Miss You Like Crazy, the latest project together of the two bankable stars that provides nothing you haven’t seen on screen before.

Except maybe Kuala Lumpur. Cruz stars as Allen, a young man who thought he’s prevented Mia (Alonzo), an overseas worker who’s on a break from Malaysia, from jumping off a ferry plying the Pasig River after a chance meeting. Turns out she wasn’t suicidal and — cue meet-cute — they hit it off right away.

The problem is, Allen is engaged to a socialite (Maricar Reyes) and his career hinges on his impending marriage with her. Gasp, what’s a guy with two loves to do? Bembol Roco as Mia’s paralyzed father amusingly typifies the comatose status this latest glossy schtick turns out to be, with a script that doles out love insights as profound as a fortune cookie quote.

For some reason, the Malaysian capital features in some scenes, though, the underused locale is mostly focused on the Petronas Towers and arbitrarily chosen scenes that could have been shot anywhere else. Of course, all Cruz and Alonzo really need to do is play sweet, get mad at each other, and make up. The two are basically playing the prequel of their last cinematic pairing, One More Chance. Like that movie, Miss You Like Crazy is under the guise that it wants to be different but is ultimately undone by the need to pander to intended audiences.