Sukob
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 Cris Aquino and Claudine Barretto on the DVD cover. |
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| Directed by | Chito Rono |
| Starring | Kris Aquino Claudine Barretto Wendell Ramos Bernard Palanca Maja Salvador Boots Anson-Roa Glaiza de Castro |
| Distributed by | Star Cinema |
| Release date(s) | July 28, 2006 |
| Running time | 100 min |
| Country |  Philippines |
| Language | Tagalog, English, |
Sukob (titled The Wedding Curse internationally) is a 2006 Star Cinema film starring Kris Aquino and Claudine Barretto. The movie was directed by Chito Rono who Kris worked with in the 2004 hit horror film Feng Shui. Sukob is considered as the Highest-Grossing Filipino film of All-Time, it earned PHP 200 million on the box-office.
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[edit] Plot
The plot centers around the Philippine belief of the wedding curse whereas two first-degree relatives (usually two sibling of the same parents) who wed on the same year are bound to live a life of misery. In this movie, Sandy and Dale, both overseas Workers in Dubai, are busy preparing for their wedding. Upon reaching her home, Sandy learns from her mother, Daisy, what happened to her friend, Helen. A short time after Helen's father died, Helen proceeded with her wedding. A few weeks after the wedding, Helen's husband dies in a plane crash. As Helen goes to the crash site, she dies in a bus accident. A few weeks later, Helen's mother suddenly disappears inside her house. Their bodies have never been recovered. Sandy proceeds with her own wedding. During the ceremony, she suffers from nosebleed and starts seeing glimpses of a ghostly flower girl. It turns out that she is not the only one who saw it. Joya, a psychic and the daughter of her husband's cousin, also saw the flower girl. Hours later, Sandy and Phil learn that the van carrying some of the secondary sponsors met an accident. When they get to the site, the bodies of the victims could not be found. Instead, they see a bridal cord. Sandy's relatives and friends disappear one by one. Things become more mysterious when Sandy receives their respective wedding photos. The people who died are headless in the photos. They realize that all the headless people in the photos are bound to die. Joya tells Sandy that she is cursed by the "sukob." Sandy is shocked - no one in her family has died recently, nor has anyone gotten married. In searching for the truth, Sandy unearths a dark family secret. Now, Sandy has to find a way to end the curse before it takes away all the people she holds dear.
[edit] Cast
- Kris Aquino as Sandy
- Claudine Barretto as Diana
- Wendell Ramos as Dale
- Bernard Palanca as Brian
- Maja Salvador as Joya
- Ronaldo Valdez as Fred
- Boots Anson-Roa as Tessie
- Glaiza de Castro as Grace
- Jhong Hilario
[edit] Award
- New Movie Actress of the Year - Maja Salvador
[edit] International Release
Sukob (The Wedding Curse) was released in the United States among 8 theaters. It earned $ 300,454. BOM-SUKOB
