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On Your Lap

2025 · 104 min

A slow, heavy watch that wraps you in a young mother's struggle, mixing tenderness with quiet dread.

Directed by: Reza Rahadian
Genres: Drama
Starring: Claresta Taufan, Fedi Nuril, Christine Hakim

Tagline: Nothing can be as powerful as a mother's love.
Overview: Sartika, a pregnant young woman, moves away from her city hoping to provide a better future for her child. She meets Maya, a coffee shop owner in Pantura. Maya takes care of Sartika and helps with her deliveries. After Sartika gives birth, Maya manipulates her into working for her as the "Kopi Pangku" waitress, a job that requires her to serve coffee on a man's lap, until one day she meets a fish distributor truck driver named Hadi and falls in love. Will she find happiness?

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Directed by: Reza Rahadian
Genres: Drama
Starring: Claresta Taufan, Fedi Nuril, Christine Hakim

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
class
parenthood
exploration
betrayal
Places: small town
workplace
sea
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	4
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Reza Rahadian
Written by: Reza Rahadian, Felix K. Nesi
Starring: Claresta Taufan, Fedi Nuril, Christine Hakim, Shakeel Fauzi Aisy, José Rizal Manua, Devano, Kaan Lativan, Reza Chandika
Cinematography: Teoh Gay Hian
Runtime: 104 min
Country: Indonesia, Saudi Arabia
Languages: Indonesian

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