Aloha (2015)
Directed by Cameron Crowe
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
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Sometimes the setting of a movie just screams “location holiday!” (Think Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe’s junket for A Good Year) So you can be forgiven for a healthy level of cynicism over Cameron Crowe’s latest romantic ‘comedy’ drama Aloha, set – rather obviously – in the military zone of Hawaii.