Romance in Hawaii

2023

Comedy / Romance

4
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 391 391

Plot summary

Leah, a successful but dissatisfied financial executive, discovers the missing passion from her life when she starts taking secret hula dance lessons from handsome local Ikaika, while on assignment in Hawaii. Along the way, Leah's feelings for Ikaika begin grow, as well as her love for hula and the island itself.

Director

Nanea Miyata Photo
Nanea Miyata

Top cast

Coel Mahal Photo
Coel Mahal as Kiki
Cedric Jonathan Photo
Cedric Jonathan as Ikaika
Peter Porte Photo
Peter Porte as Michael
Kelley Jakle Photo
Kelley Jakle as Leah Davis
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784.67 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 25 min
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1.57 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 25 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by vjf36 8 / 10

Hawaii

I loved this movie. Not a typical Hallmark movie type. A real good story ececellent acting and beautiful scenery. I like the way the leads played off each other. The Hawaiian customs were interesting and extremely informative. In addition I appreciated no politics no hidden agenda just a very nice entertaining movie. I often wonder why more movies are done like this without the politics or hidden agenda. The story was original with good substance and very realistic Hackle the lead actress demonstrated very good range and believable. Hackles colleague can't act to save his life. He was comical and not in a good way. His part was ridiculous plus again his acting was forced. All in all a very nice movie with UpTv.
Reviewed by Jackbv123 6 / 10

Hula

I love Kelley Jakle, but I wonder about casting an obvious blonde in a role where that would be a definite handicap for the character trying to make inroads in the midst of a community with strong cultural values that border on xenophobic at times. The movie even makes references to that by using pejorative labels for people from outside.As if xenophobia isn't enough negativity, Leah has a competitor for promotion who plays dirty using sexism against her and a boss who plays into it. "Women have to work twice as hard to get half as far." Unfortunately, at a time when Leah should be focusing on business, she decides to concentrate a lot of effort on socializing and Hula and seems to ignore what she was sent for.Interestingly neither of these things is the focus of the movie. There is a lot of screentime spent on Hulu dancing. This combines with the romantic plot thread, but it also shortchanges that a bit.From the minute Leah meets the hotel events coordinator, Ikaika, and then the property owner at least part of the general outcome is predictable. This becomes apparent before the midpoint. Another theme that seems to be universal in this type of movie is that of the Evil Developers who want to destroy everything beautiful putting only buildings in their place. (Are all Developers really that stupid?) I thought there were some rough parts in getting there because not everything made sense. To explain what I mean would be spoilers and I don't want to do that.I love to hear Jakle sing and she does one song,
Reviewed by stevenyoung55 4 / 10

Not Hawaii

I was watching this movie because the title said Hawaii and Kelley Jakle is in it. It is the typical story, competition for a job, a meet cute and a misunderstanding followed by love. It was bugging me when they went to Hawaii and other than an aerial view of Waikiki and Diamond Head, it did not really look like Hawaii. I kept searching to find out where this movie was filmed and nothing came up. In the end credits it said that it was filmed entirely in Los Angeles. I thought I was losing my mind. If they are going to have Hawaii in the title in would be nice if they actually filmed there. It was pretty just odd looking to me.
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