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Following the success of Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo, Kim Chiu and Xian Lim return to the big screen with Bride for Rent. Because my husband enjoyed Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo, it was easier for me to convince him to come see this KimXi movie. I wasn’t really expecting much from Bride for Rent thinking that it might just be a copycat of their prior movie. But I was wrong! It may come from the same genre, but Kim and Xian definitely took things a notch higher from their last movie.
Xian plays the role of Rocco, a rich businessman who lost a huge amount of money. In order to save his name and his business, he had to find a wife as this was his grandmother’s condition before he could take hold of his trust fund. That is…
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