MOVIEGOER: Rating Morisette as an actress

MOVIEGOER: Rating Morisette as an actress

From the get-go, she was first choice for the part. And the producers, Girlie Rodis and Celeste Legaspi, proved themselves right. Morisette, formerly known as just a singer who goes by the funny, nonsensical title, Asia’s Phoenix, (I cringe just having to write it down), acquits herself well in the lead role of the school teacher who gathered a bunch of street children and groomed them into a choir. This was in the 1980s and the scenery was the …