Bona

Bona is a young woman from a middle-class family in the Philippines who turns her back on school and home for Gardo, an actor scraping by in low-budget films. Having written to him as a fan, she moves into his makeshift quarters and takes on the running of his household. What she imagines as a romance becomes domestic service without pay: she cooks, cleans and puts up with the stream of other women in his life, hoping her devotion will be returned. Her father, exasperated by her choices, has already pushed her out of the family home.

Lino Brocka directed the film, which followed Insiang and Manila in the Claws of Light and came before Macho Dancer in his filmography. Cenen Ramones wrote the screenplay. Nora Aunor plays Bona opposite Phillip Salvador as Gardo, with Marissa Delgado, Raquel Monteza, Venchito Galvez and Rustica Carpio in supporting roles.

Released in May 1984, the drama runs 86 minutes. It holds a rating of 7.3 out of 10 on IMDb from 311 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.6 out of 10 from 13 votes, so the larger IMDb sample is the more favourable of the two.