Saving Sally
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Theatrical release poster featuring Sally (left) and Marty (right) in the foreground. In the background are stylized monster depiction of Sally's Parents (left) and Nick (right).
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| Directed by | Avid Liongoren |
| Screenplay by | Charlene Sawit-Esguerra |
| Based on | Saving Sally by Charlene Sawit-Esguerra |
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Rhian Ramos Enzo Marcos |
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Rocketsheep Studios
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| Distributed by | Solar Pictures |
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| Country | Philippines |
| Language | English |
Saving Sally is a 2016 Filipino live-action animated film directed by Avid Liongoren, starring Rhian Ramos and Enzo Marcos.
The film is an official entry to the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival. It received positive reviews from critics and fans, praising its creativity, visual effects, and musical score, while some criticized the plot for being too formulaic.
The film revolves around Marty (Enzo Marcos) an amateur comic-book artist who sees the world around him as a vivid picture book and also sees most people he dislikes or indifferent to as monsters. Three years ago, when he was still a high school sophomore, Marty was often picked on by a bully until Sally (Rhian Ramos), a gadget inventor, intervened and later helped Marty get revenge by humiliating the said bully in public. The two immediately became best friends, and as time passed, Marty developed romantic feelings for his friend but such feelings remained unrequited. Ever hesitant, Marty struggles to gather the courage to express his true feelings to Sally and drew pictures of his friend and his experiences with her in secret.
The two had adventures together frequently going to the comics store and in one occasion took pictures of sleeping people. As Marty spent time with Sally he also learns that his friend's adoptive parents are strict and suspects that Sally is being physically abused by them. Sometimes Sally reasons out that she is busy with a "secret project". The two developed a system utilizing a high-powered telescope and a code book of signals using clothes, which enabled them to interact than what Sally parents would allow. Marty would sometimes finds Sally with a bruise with Sally often shrugging it off claiming the bruises were from accidents.
The summer after they graduated from high school, Sally and Marty decided to attend the same college together as Fine Arts students and took the entrance exams. Marty was immediately accepted at the institution while Sally was put on the "waiting list" meaning that her admittance to the college isn't certain. Sally remarks that her parents doesn't like her to take a course in Fine Arts anyway. Marty got a call from a comic-book publisher, Renegade Komiks, and got an opportunity to pitch a comic storyline from the eyepatch-wearing editor Toto. At the park at near dusk when the two are in a swing Marty yet attempts to say his true feelings for Sally and his friend is also eager to say something. Marty urged Sally to say what she would want to say and Sally revealed that she has a boyfriend much to Marty's shock.
Marty's father confronted him with his problem and brought him to a place where men go when they are depressed which was later revealed to be a toy car racing venue. Marty's father encouraged him that it was not too late to disclose his feelings to Sally pointing out that if he did he would be the "first in line" if Sally and her boyfriend broke up.
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