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Mano Po 4: Ako Legal Wife is a Philippin film of genre Drama directed by Joel Lamangan with Zsa Zsa Padilla
Mano Po 4: Ako Legal Wife (2005)
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Add to a movie listMano Po 4: Ako Legal Wife is Regal Entertainment's entry for the 2005 Metro Manila Film Festival. The film focuses on the lives of the Chinese-Filipino community. It stars Jay Manalo, Zsa Zsa Padilla as the Legal Wife, Cherry Pie Picache as the Lucky Wife and Rufa Mae Quinto as the Latest Wife.
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Elton Chiong (Jay Manalo) is a businessman having three wives. Chona (Zsa Zsa Padilla), a pure Chinese is his legal wife having three children, Hamilton (John Prats) who is a homosexual, Hibiscus (Julianne Lee) and Anthurium (Ella Guevara); Patty (Cherry Pie Picache), who is a Chinese with having a Visayan accent. She gives good luck to Elton, with their only son Nixon (JC De Vera); and Gloria (Rufa Mae Quinto), a Filipino is Elton's mistress.Actors
Zsa Zsa Padilla
(Chona Gao-Chiong)
Cherry Pie Picache
(Patty)
Rufa Mae Quinto
(Gloria Martinez)
Jay Manalo
(Elton Chiong)
JC de Vera
(Nixon)
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