Riding Giants (2004), From Here to Eternity (1953), The Descendants (2011), Lilo & Stitch (2002), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Billabong Odyssey (2003), Soul Surfer (2011), 50 First Dates (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Hawaii movies.
Storyline: Chad Gates (Elvis Presley) has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surfboard, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. His father wants him to go to work at the Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit Company, but he is reluctant. So he goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.—Pat McCurry <ccgrad97@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, elvis presley, song and dance, love, beach ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, song and dance, black and white, paramount, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of friends go to Hawaii in order to practice surfing, their favorite sport. But this is not all they do there - they also find love...—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: surfing, beach, youth, adventure, romance, competition, sports ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hard-partying brothers Mike (Adam Devine) and Dave (Zac Efron) place an online ad to find the perfect dates (Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza) for their sister's Hawaiian wedding. Hoping for a wild getaway, the boys instead find themselves outsmarted and out-partied by the uncontrollable duo.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, r-rated, bromance, wedding, dating, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Francine (Gidget) is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggie" is home from College. When he suggests she go for it, she's even more in panic - doesn't he care to be with her? So she sets out for Hawaii in the worst mood. On the plane she meets the sociable Abby, who gives her the advice to forget about Jeff - and regrets it shortly after, when Francine follows the advice and steals her boyfriend Eddie, a famous dancer. But then Jeff discovers he's missing Francine...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: teen, comedy, beach, surfing, romance, music, dance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fifteen young sailors... six months of intense training... one chance at the brass ring. This documentary tells the story of a group of intrepid and determined young men and women, on the cusp of adulthood, as they embark on life's first great adventure. Racing a high-performance 52-foot sloop in the TRANSPAC, the most revered of open-ocean sailing competitions, the crew of "Morning Light" matches wits and skills in a dramatic 2300 mile showdown against top professionals. From their earliest training sessions in Hawaii conducted by world-class teachers through their test of endurance on the high seas, they form an unbreakable bond in the process of becoming a singular team that is greater than the sum of its parts.—Walt Disney Pictures
Plot Keywords: documentary, racing, youth, team, adventure, training, challenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three decorated Navy pilots finagle a four day leave in San Francisco. They procure a posh suite at the hotel and Commander Crewson, a master of procurement, arranges to populate it with party people. Lieutenant Wallace is trying to get the pilots to make speeches to rally the homefront at shipyard magnate Eddie Turnbill's plants, but they're tired of the war and just want to have fun. While Crewson begins falling in love with Turnbill's fiancée Gwinneth Livingston, he tries to ignore the distant call of war.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, love, war, drama, music, musical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.—Pat McCurry <ccgrad97@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, song and dance, elvis presley, 1960s, love triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rick Richards is a helicopter pilot who wants to set up a charter flying service in Hawaii -- along the way he makes some friends, including a young Hawaiian girl and her father, romances Judy Hudson, and sings a few songs.—Michael C. Berch <mcb@postmodern.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, song and dance, elvis presley, 1960s, aviation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates including her rebellious younger sister, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters surf competition. Having transplanted herself to Hawaii with no one's blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene ... until pro quarterback Matt Tollman comes along. Like it or not, Anne Marie starts losing her balance - and finding it - as she falls for Matt.
Plot Keywords: surfing, female lead, sports film, coming of age, friendship, inspirational, beach ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break up a ring of Communist Party troublemakers in Hawaii (ignoring somewhat, as do their superiors in the Congress, that membership in the Communist Party was, at the time, legal in the U.S.)—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, crime, drama, thriller, film noir, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Idealistic Sandra Beecher has just started working as a science teacher at Kona-Pali High School in Hawaii, being hired for this job despite her teaching background being in English. Her reason for taking the job is largely to run away from the mainland and a failed marriage. She finds that her students are an unmotivated lot, largely because there are low societal expectations of them, including from their parents and the school faculty. As such, she directs a handful of her most unmotivated students to attend a regional science fair at which there are no Kona-Pali displays to come up with their own science fair projects. An incident at the fair does spur one of her students, Daniel Webster, self-professed as not being good at most things but believing he is a good designer, to announce, with the support of his fellow students, that they want to build a solar powered car of his design as their project, and to enter that car in the upcoming Inter-island Race. American Corporate giant, CelTech, has agreed to sponsor the winner of that race for the grueling six day, 2,800km long Trans-Australian World Solar Challenge, at which the best minds in this field - corporate and academic - will be participating. CelTech expects their own financially supported entry to win the Hawaii race. Despite the odds against them, Ms. Beecher agrees, and is eventually able to convince, albeit reluctantly, the school's shop teacher, Frank Machi, to be another school supervisor on the project. The students, Sandra and Frank have to overcome many obstacles to even getting a finished product to enter the race, from self-doubt, to internal issues which may raise irreconcilable differences between the team members, to mostly everyone external to them believing they cannot achieve their goal. Their largest naysayers are their competitors, including CelTech, and current world champion, Hans Kooiman of the Euro Team, who have an elitist view of their world.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: adventure, inspirational, sports, teen, educational, competition, teamwork ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs - the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii - and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, love, military, cultural clash, pilot, reunion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless she is intrigued when the intrusive canine makes best friends with her captive dolphin, Roxanne. She falls in love with Zeus' owner, Terry, a musician who rides a bike.—Marcos Eduardo Acosta Aldrete
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, animals, dog, friendship, adventure, children ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the desert outside Cactus Gulch, Arizona, Buzzard and Betty Jean Wall live in a trailer decorated in Hawaiian themes. Betty's trying to get pregnant. Buzz wants to market "Cammo," a sun block lotion that looks like camouflage; but financing is tough to find and Betty thinks he should get a real job. Buzz's half-brother Turkey, a murderous psychopath, escapes from jail, comes to the trailer, ties up Buzz, kidnaps Betty, steals $10,000 they've just won from Publisher's Clearing Hut's Lucky Loser drawing, and heads for Mexico. Buzz is untied by Maya, an ex-girlfriend who's now a TV reporter in search of a story. They pick up Turk's trail and set out to rescue Betty.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, romance, road movie, crime, black comedy, fugitive ...
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