“Meet, Greet & Bye” is a 2025 Filipino family film. This lighthearted melodrama is about loving as if there’s no tomorrow and, in some ways, as if there were no yesterday. Director Cathy Garcia-Sampana seems to say that it’s pointless to brood over what might’ve been. In loving each other, families are better off giving their best to what is. They’re then well placed to shape what can be.
Single mother “Ma” Baby Lopez-Facundo (Maricel Soriano) dotes on her family. It’s unclear whether her husband has passed away or is merely estranged. Bachelor son Brad (Joshua Garcia) runs a roast pig business from Ma’s yard. Music-loving son Leo (Juan Karlos Labajo) lives with his fiancée and son. Granddaughter Geri (Belle Mariano) has just landed a job after graduating from college. Geri’s estranged widower father, Chris (Piolo Pascual), has just flown down from the United States, where he runs a restaurant with his girlfriend.
