Audrey Locsin (Liza Soberano) is an old soul young woman from the town of Silay who's dating the laidback Tristan (Gerald Anderson). It's all going blissfully until he quite suddenly falls into a coma, leaving her to pick the pieces up. Meanwhile in Manila, Ethan Alfaro (Enrique Gil) is a brash young TV producer who's staking on very thin ice with his network. Once Tristan is hospitalised there, Audrey and Ethan meet randomly and become fast friends. But of course, that's just the beginning, for while poor Tristan sleeps, Audrey finds herself conflicted as she's increasingly drawn to Ethan, who meanwhile has his own emotional demons to battle.
Beware: this Filipino romantic drama is so manipulative it could give you motion sickness. Every emotional beat and motif is invoked insistently and shamelessly: teary flashbacks, single piano notes on the score, single tears from the characters, a Mexican standoff-style argument, the lot. Soberano and Gil give it their all, but director Mae Cruz-Alviar and writers Vanessa Valdez, Kookai Labayen, Iris Lacap and Gilliann Ebreo collectively gave me the impression here they were out to conspire against restraint with no remorse and it doesn't help that the narrative, with or without that heavy-handed telling, is thoroughly predictable. There's not even much, if any showcasing of the Philippines' spectacular wilderness to offer brief respite from all the sappiness.
But hey, if you like non-stop sappiness, obviously Everyday I Love You is the movie for you. I, however, felt like retching by the end. 4/10.
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