Experiencing the forbidden. Experiencing rejection. Hating your parents. Hating the world around you. Discovering what's hot. Discovering what's cool. Discovering your first true love. Discovering who you are. Growing up can be such a wild time. But not when you've got the best guys to hang out with. Five chaste young men immerse themselves in the superficialities and superfluity of adolescence over the course of their last year in high school. But as they make their gradual transition from boyhood to manhood, they realize it is their formidable bond that stands as the real deal.
Acting
Aga Muhlach's smoldering stare launched a thousand crushes.
Score
Soundtrack that permanently damaged every karaoke machine in the Philippines.
Writing
Dialogue so earnest it circles back to accidentally profound.
Director
Maryo J. de los Reyes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film basically created the 'barkada movie' template that Filipino cinema would copy for decades. Without Bagets, there's no TGIS, no G-mik, no Luv U, no entire genre of found-family teen dramas.
The five leads were deliberately cast from different networks—Aga from Regal, Herbert from Seiko, Raymond from Viva—making this the Avengers: Endgame of 1984 Philippine showbiz politics.
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