| Ang Tanging Ina N'yong Lahat | |
| Director: | Wenn V. Deramas |
| Producer: | Tess V. Fuentes |
| Music: | Jessie Lasaten |
| Cinematography: | Sherman Philip T. So |
| Editing: | Marya Ignacio |
| Studio: | Star Cinema |
| Distributor: | Star Cinema |
| Runtime: | 105 minutes |
| Country: | Philippines |
| Language: | Filipino |
| Gross: | |
Ang Tanging Ina N'yong Lahat is a 2008 Filipino comedy film directed by Wenn V. Deramas and starring Ai-Ai delas Alas and Eugene Domingo. It is the sequel to a 2003 comedy film Ang Tanging Ina. It was released on December 25, 2008, as Star Cinema's official entry to the 2008 Metro Manila Film Festival.[1] The film also follows a 77-episode sitcom continuation, Ang Tanging Ina: The TV Series that ran from August 2003 to January 2005, with several plot developments that occurred in the series, such as the death of Ina's fourth husband Eddie (Dennis Padilla) and Ina giving birth to twins, being carried over to the rest of the films.
The film grossed a total of PHP 204 million and was the all time box office hit in the Philippines until Star Cinema's You Changed My Life beat it. As of April 2009, it grossed pesos.[2] Ai-Ai delas Alas reprises her role Ina Montecilio. It also stars Eugene Domingo as Rowena, Carlo Aquino as Tri, Alwyn Uytingco as Pip, Shaina Magdayao as Seven, Serena Dalrymple as Cate, Jiro Manio as Shammy and Yuuki Kadooka as Ten-Ten.[3] [4]
Ina Montecillo mourns her fourth husband, Eddie at his grave. She and her best friend Rowena then work as a stunt doubles for a film directed by her former employer, Bruno. Four of her children are Overseas Filipinos: her eldest, Juan, migrates to New Zealand with his girlfriend, Jenny. Tudis settles in Canada, where she meets her future husband, a house painter. Portia/Por breaks up with Jeffrey and moves to India, where she joins GMA (Global Missionaries of Asia). Sixto migrates to the United Kingdom to work as a nurse.
Of her eight remaining children, Tri, is a law student by day and a call centre supervisor at night. Pip, her gay son still pursues his dream of entering show business; he queues for what he thinks are auditions for PBB, but turns out to be a rice distribution program called Pila ng Bigasang Bayan. Seven, is the one in charge of her younger siblings and household chores. Cate has a dignity to stop everything. Shammy is doing something bad instead of studying, but he can be a businessman. Her deaf-mute son Ten-ten is very quiet while her twin daughters Connie and Sweet are quite naughty. Ina has a restaurant which is bankrupted by Rowena's gluttony.
On the night of her 46th birthday, she prepares a surprise for her children, but none of them remember. She decides to study in university as a working student, taking on a series of odd jobs. Her first stint is as a waitress, but gets fired after removing her uniform in front of patrons due to the heat. She next decides to work in an ice plant, but resigns after Rowena visits her. After that, she continues her studies.
Rowena and Ina go to Malacañang to seek employment. They refuse the positions of governess to the presidential children (thinking it means governor) and chambermaid (thinking it means a selector of chandeliers), they get jobs as maids. They catch a glimpse of President Hillary Dafalong, and scramble to greet her but are stopped by the Presidential Security Group. They try and fail to speak with her several times until Ina eavesdropps on Vice-President Bill Bilyones discussing a plot to assassinate Dafalong. At a public function, Ina and Rowena try to inform the President of the plan but fail because of the crowd's absent-mindedness, and Dafalong is killed. As a result, Ina blows the whistle on Bilyones, who immediately calls for a snap election in which he loses to Ina by a landslide.
Settling into her new role as President, Ina makes initial missteps such as implementing extended night classes for children before improving things through measures such as wholesale arrests of traffic violators, utilizing vacant land for rice production and securing the nation's oil supply by teaching Arab leaders a rain dance. However, Ina's relations with her family become strained. Tri gets into bad company and gets involved in a series of anomalous dealings. Pip stars in indecent films, while Ina unwittingly puts her signature on what she thinks is a school assignment of Shammy, but is actually a contract to set up a gambling den near his school. Her twins, Sweet and Connie, are then kidnapped by terrorists after the girls thought they could ease things by running away. They eventually retrieve the girls and subdue the terrorists, and Ina then decides to resign after realising the value of her family. Ina hands over the reins of power to her vice president, Ren Constantino.
On her 47th birthday, Ina wakes up and thinks that her family forgot again. They fete her with a surprise party to also compensate for forgetting her 46th birthday. In the end credits, President Constantino roams around Malacañang, looking at the official portraits of past presidents. The last portrait shows Ina as President, surrounded by her family.
See main article: Ang Tanging Ina Mo (Last na 'To!). In 2010, the Star Cinema once again brought the third and the last installment of Ang Tanging Ina film series starring Ai-Ai de las Alas, Eugene Domingo, Marvin Agustin, Nikki Valdez and several others including Jon Avila and Rafael Rosell who are the new cast. The film tells the life of Ina after she quit her position as the President of the Philippines without knowing that she is suffering from brain tumor and very afraid to tell it to her children.
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| Year | Award-Giving Body | Category | Recipient | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Metro Manila Film Festival[5] | Third Best Picture | Ang Tanging Ina N'yong Lahat | ||
| 2009 | Comedy Box-Office Queen[6] | Ai Ai delas Alas |