American Adobo

American Adobo is a 2002 comedy, romancedrama film produced by Kevin J. Foxe, the executive producer of the phenomenal blockbuster hit The Blair Witch Project. The film tells the story of five FilipinoAmerican friends living in New York City dealing with love, sex, friendship, careers, and cultural identity. Directed by veteran Filipino film directoractress Laurice Guillen. The title was derived from adobo, a very popular dish in the Philippines.

Adobo is a very popular dish in the Philippines and aside from being a hearty viand in the film, it also serves as a symbolism of the clashes in the different struggles of the characters. Acidic vinegar, salty soy sauce, meat, salt, pepper, all are combined in a pot to produce adobo. In the film, despite the conflicts in their characters, in the end, everything ended up well, just like a well cooked adobo.The film started out with a conversation between Tony Gloria and Vincent Nebrida that there should be films depicting Filipino life in the US. Two months later Vincent finished a screenplay called Magic Adobo but only received attention from movie executives in April 1999, after four years since its conception. The entire movie was filmed in chilly October 2000 on location in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island, including a summertime pool party scene which required the actors, who were shivering between takes, to wear skimpy bathing suits outdoors. ........

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