To my knowledge, Serbis is the first film to equate third-world life in the late capitalist era to squatting in a rundown porn palace. Mike Judge, who predicted in Idiocracy that Starbucks will one day sell handjobs, would feel thoroughly validated to see the goings on in the Family Theater, the last of a Filipino theater chain run by a family that's as defunct as its business. The movie house, showing softcore double bills, amounts to a fence for patrons seeking sex among a battalion of teenage hos and gigolos waiting in the aisles. Theater owner Nanay (Gina Parneo), a proud but put-upon Joan Crawford-type matriarch, is busy battling her husband in divorce court, leaving her employees biding their time in the theater as they await how the breakup will affect their jobs. For the most part, they sit around shooting the shit while lounging in a maze-like complex of rooms and corridors within the dilapidated grandeur of the theater.  Kevin Lee