Missed Connections (2023) [Filipino]

After an unforgettable encounter, a hopeless romantic turns to an app to seek out a man she just met – but is he really what she’s looking for?.

Missed Connections (now on Netflix) is a Filipino rom-com starring Miles Ocampo as an offbeat and lonely young woman who’s so desperate to nab a boyfriend, she’s willing to do ridiculous and awkward things to achieve that goal. You know this type of movie character – a little overbearing, needs to tone it down some, maybe should comb her hair more often, marches to the beat of her own drummer, lives in a state of staid denial that she doesn’t recognize makes her a poor potential partner for the man who finds himself in her crosshairs. But these types of movie characters are also endearing in spite of their faults, right? We hope so, especially if we’re going to spend 100-plus minutes hanging out with them.

The Gist: He stands between her and a can of sardines, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Mae’s (Miles Ocampo) grocery-shopping excursion becomes one of the things in the title of the movie when she meets Norman (Kelvin Miranda) and her eyes go glassy and glazed like the object of her every desire has just magically manifested in front of her in a kelly green T-shirt. She lightly stalks him to the checkout lane and gazes at him in awe like a believer at the actual foot of their actual god. Maybe the weird vibes she emanates results in a non-exchange of contact information, but it also allows her to employ the titular plot mechanism: She logs on a missed-connections site, posts a message for “Mr. Green” and squeals like a maniac when he later posts a message for “Grocery Girl.” His description of said female is vague but Mae just knows it’s gotta be her, which doesn’t set her up at all for disappointment, right?

Wrong! See, she isn’t Norman’s “Grocery Girl,” which he points out when they get together, but she just pushes right past that and hopes to endear herself to him anyway. She has an in: He’s a tech guy who can code and she needs someone to gussy up the retail website for her silkscreen T-shirt business. He’s hired! And he agrees to go back to her house and get to work, but not until they show each other their ID in a very strange and awkward and unnecessary scene. Anyone who believes one’s surroundings are a reflection of the person would raise an eyebrow at Mae’s home, which is cluttered and messy, an explosion of clothing and books and papers and cardboard boxes and one rather cute cat. He works and she flirts and he’s oblivious (or ignoring her) as she throws herself at him. He whips the site into shape and head-on-the-table dozes off, and she leans over and… sniffs him. Are we supposed to like Mae after she does this creepy shit?

Missed Connections (2023)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Release Date: Jun 2, 2023 (Philippines)

Stars: Miles Ocampo, Kelvin Miranda, Chie Filomeno, JC Santos

Source: Missed.Connections.2023.1080p.WEB.h264-EDITH

Language: Filipino

Subtitle Language: English

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27703325/

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