A scholarship student who calls herself “panget” takes a maid’s job in the house of the richest, most insufferable boy in school — and gets dragged into every one of her classmates’ matchmaking schemes along the way. Directed by Andoy Ranay for Viva Films, it turned a self-published Wattpad diary into one of 2014’s biggest local box-office stories.
Built on wide-eyed rom-com formula and a scrappy underdog premise, the film leaned on the real chemistry between its four young leads rather than production polish — a bet that paid off with audiences even as critics stayed cold.
Starring
Nadine Lustre, James Reid, Yassi Pressman, Andre Paras