Starring:  Ini Edo, Jim Iyke, Hoom Suk, Elizabeth Daniels

Synopsis:

A recording artist of worldwide fame presents an upbeat façade to her fans but behind closed doors she’s traumatized by her childhood.  

Review:

This is a story about Beverly (Ini Edo), a woman who was verbally and physically abused by her mother as a child. Beverly grew up wanting to be loved but never got much of it. She’s actually the product of rape and her mother’s lack of affection stemmed from her own troubled life.

When Beverly became a celebrity, the world knew her as the offspring of elite parents that died in a car crash but in the real world she never knew her father, was abandoned by her mother, and was raised in an orphanage. 

The famous Beverly befriended a television host and called him on a lonely night when her manager/boyfriend was unavailable. As they talked she learned that he was from the same orphanage that she grew up in. His presence in her life prompted her to come clean to the world about her difficult past. 

Let’s Talk. This is a drama. Beverly’s back-story was actually touching and it was heartbreaking to see young Beverly’s little face as her mother called her evil and ugly. Clearly, her mother’s pain trickled down to the next generation because Beverly carried the baggage of her childhood on a daily basis. When does the pain stop? It stopped with Beverly because her declaration to the world allowed her to let it go. 

There wasn’t really much of a plot (not that it needed one). The audience simply went on a journey with Beverly as she struggled with her past, released it, and then healed.

From what we saw of the character onscreen she could have very well been a film actress or some rich ordinary woman. There was no way to tell what she did for a living other than hearing about it through the dialogue and that was a pinch in the story. Beverly was supposed to be a singer get she didn’t perform anywhere in the movie. There wasn’t even a soundtrack of her singing. Seeing her on stage maybe finishing a performance or having a rehearsal. or doing anything musical would have made the character more believable. 

The upside was that the writer kept it classy. Beverly could have easily become an alcoholic, use drugs, or squander her fortune before finally coming to terms with her demons and that didn’t happen. Actually that may have made a more dramatic story but the conflict presented itself in the subplot with Beverly’s mysterious blackmailer and her sleazy manager/lover played by Jim Iyke. RECOMMEND

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