“The Mommy Returns” is a family comedy-horror movie about a mother, Ruby (Pokwang) who dies right on the day of her 25th wedding anniversary with gorgeous husband, William (Gabby Concepcion). With her untimely death, she is temporarily trapped in Purga (short for Purgatory) with its guardian, Dyoga (John Lapus, ang diyosa ng purga) and the pesky Manny, the chicken pet of San Pedro.
Enter Catherine (Ruffa Gutierrez) – a younger, fresher, and much, much prettier woman who comes into the life of William. When she threatens to take Ruby’s place as mother to her three beloved children (Kiray, Gerald Pesigan and Jillian Ward), hell (er, purgatory) breaks loose as Ruby escapes back to earth as a ghost to scare and drive Catherine out of the family she left behind!
What follows is a riot of scary antics and tactics that will prove that “hell hath no fury like a dead woman,” especially if she is a mother who can’t leave her children behind!
This year’s Regal Films‘ laugh-til-you-cry Mother’s Day offering is directed by Joel Lamangan from a screenplay by Senedy H. Que. It opens nationwide on May 9, 2012.
