Anne, Derek and Cristine set the screen on fire in passionate love-triangle drama

MANILA, Philippines - The reel characters that Anne Curtis, Derek Ramsay and Cristine Reyes are playing in their first movie together are as passionate and as daring as they are in real life.

In No Other Woman, a joint venture between Star Cinema and Viva Films, the three hot stars are bound to set the screen on fire with the love-triangle drama they get enmeshed in, a situation quite common in Philippine society.

In the movie directed by Ruel Bayani, Derek plays Ram Escaler, a furniture salesman torn between his wife, Charmaine dela Costa (Cristine), and his mistress, Kara Zalderiaga (Anne).

“The movie shows passion and its two sides, the beautiful and the ugly,” said director Ruel, “how passion can make people happy and at the same time burn them.”

Derek’s character, reminiscent of the one played by Jake Gyllenhaal in Love and Other Drugs, is handsome, charming and persuasive. He’s a furniture salesman eager to succeed on his own and prove to the whole world that he can make it. The fact that he and his wife Charmaine are living in a house given to them as a wedding gift by Charmaine’s rich father doesn’t sit well with Ram’s ego, especially not because Charmaine’s father has put them under his influence.

As Charmaine, Cristine belongs to a nouveau riche family who strives to be “the perfect wife” to Ram. She’s prim and proper to a fault, concerned with “image” and she likes everything to be in order, living according to her own rules, and she therefore becomes kind of calculating.

As Kara, Anne will remind moviegoers of Paris Hilton, a carefree socialite, easy-going, adventurous and spontaneous, and effortlessly sophisticated. She tells Ram that she doesn’t want to be her mistress, that all she wants is to have fun, luring Ram into “having fun” with her, until they find themselves falling hard for each other.

Giving a new twist to the eternal love triangle, No Other Woman will open in more than 100 theaters nationwide on Sept. 28, calculated to spread the fire of passion among moviegoers.

It’s the kind of movie that is as hot as the stars inhabiting it.

“It will burn you,” added director Ruel, “with consuming passion.”