Princess Kaiulani PG
Her heart was torn between love and the future of Hawaii...
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 14, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Barry Pepper, Jimmy Yuill, Julian Glover, Q'orianka Kilcher & Shaun Evans | |
Directed by | Marc Forby | |
Screenwriting by | Marc Forby | |
Composition by | Stephen Warbeck | |
Director of Photography: | Gabriel Beristain |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Watching Princess Kaiulani, you're not sure whether to weep for the title character or the actress playing her.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 2/4 --
There are too many swooping violins, too many trite generalizations, too few moments that throw a light on history and turn it into art.
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Houston Chronicle
[A] stirring romantic drama....Cinematography, production design, costumes and music smoothly converge for an impressive period effect.
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 1/5 --
Looking more like a Hallmark Movie-of-the-Week and reading like a CliffNotes summary of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in the 1890s, the $9-million historical romance Princess Kaiulani won't raise any eyebrows or ruffle feathers...
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Film Threat
Its story plays like a Hawaiian heritage lesson filtered through the melodramatic artifice of an old Hollywood costume drama.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: C- --
Less biography than hagiography, and more suitable to cable TV than theatres.
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One Guy's Opinion
Rating: 2/4 --
There's little passion, damn little fire in the belly, and what there is is wasted on a pleasant romance conjured up by the script, aimed at the My Little Pony market.
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Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Product Description:
The incredible true story of Hawaiian princess Ka'iulani (Q'orianka Kilcher) comes to the screen in this historical drama from first time writer/director Marc Forby. The year is 1888; a rebel alliance with connections to the American government has succeeded in destabilizing Hawaii. When the fight comes to the royal palace, 13-year-old heir to the throne Princess Ka'iulani is spirited away to Victorian England -- where her royalty holds no bearing on her social standing. As Princess Ka'iulani struggles to adapt to her new surroundings, she finds herself falling in love with handsome, rebellious young Englishman Clive Davies (Shaun Evans). Four years later, the princess receives word that the queen has been incarcerated, and the monarch has fallen. In time Princess Ka'iulani realizes that in order to save her people she must give up her romance with Clive, and travel to America in order to speak with President Grover Cleveland. Convinced that she can restore her kingdom by proving to the Americans that her people are not the savage barbarians that the press portrays them to be, the princess makes her way to the United States and wages a valiant fight against the grave injustices being inflicted upon native Hawaiians.