| Third World Happy | |
| Director: | EJ Salcedo |
| Production Companies: | --> |
| Distributor: | Cinema One Originals |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Country: | Philippines |
| Language: | Filipino |
Third World Happy is a 2010 Philippine drama film directed by EJ Salcedo and starring Sam Milby and Jodi Sta. Maria as former partners.[1] The film debuted 11 November 2010 at the Cinema One Originals Digital Film Festival,[2] and had theatrical release across the Philippines on May 25, 2011.[3] [4] [5]
Wesley (Sam Milby) was a Fil-Am and a naturalized citizen when he left Philippines 12 years earlier. In America, he aspired to become a painter, and revealed that his parents died before he left the country to finish his dreams, he became a Fulbright scholar to achieve it. Years later, he received a phone call that his loved one had died and he was required to visit the wake. There he met his ex-girlfriend (Jodi Sta. Maria), his friends, his aunt and his own older brother, who will be his guide to give him a shining light and give him the courage to look at the coffin and say his last goodbyes. It is revealed that his Kuya Danny was the dead one after all.