Aloha Summer

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Aloha Summer | image = Aloha summer.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Tommy Lee Wallace | producer = Mike Greco | screenplay = {{plainlist| * Mike Greco * Bob Benedetto }} | story = Mike Greco | starring = {{plainlist| * Chris Makepeace * Yuji Okumoto * Don Michael Paul * Tia Carrere * Andy Bumatai * Lorie Griffin }} | music = {{plainlist| * Jesse Frederick * Bennett Salvay }} | cinematography = Steven Poster | editing = {{plainlist| * Jay Cassidy * James Coblentz * Jack Hofstra * Russ Kingston<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/917709/Russ-Kingston/filmography|title=The New York Times|access-date=2010-12-15|archive-date=November 3, 2012|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide|date=2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103143106/https://movies.nytimes.com/person/917709/Russ-Kingston/filmography}}</ref> }} | distributor = International Spectrafilm | released = {{Film date|1988|02|26}} | runtime = 97 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = $418,379 }}

'''''Aloha Summer''''' is a 1988 American comedy-drama film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and starring Chris Makepeace, Yuji Okumoto, Tia Carrere and Don Michael Paul. The plot is about a group of teenagers and their experiences one summer in Hawaii.

==Premise== In 1959, an American teenager travels from the Contiguous United States to Hawaii with his parents for a vacation and meets five other teenagers. The film follows the teenagers as they learn about surfing, drinking, sex, and friendship.

== Reception == Caryn James of ''The New York Times'' called it "empty nostalgia done for its own sake".<ref>{{cite news|author=James, Caryn|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940DEED61E3BF935A15751C0A96E948260|title=Aloha Summer (1988)|work= The New York Times| date=26 February 1988 |accessdate=April 29, 2012}}</ref> Kevin Thomas of the ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote the film surprises viewers with its depth and themes, which include racism.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-26-ca-30414-story.html|title=MOVIE REVIEWS : 'Aloha Summer': Youth in Troubled Paradise|last=Thomas|first=Kevin|work=Los Angeles Times|date=February 26, 1988|access-date=December 10, 2015}}</ref> ''TV Guide'' wrote, "Though they didn't create a very good movie, the filmmakers had their hearts in the right place, and for that they should be commended."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/aloha-summer/review/127062/|title=Aloha Summer|publisher=TV Guide|accessdate=December 10, 2015}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0094637}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|aloha_summer}} * {{Mojo title|alohasummer}}

Category:1988 films Category:1980s teen comedy-drama films Category:American teen comedy-drama films Category:Films set in 1959 Category:Films set in Hawaii Category:Films shot in Hawaii Category:Films directed by Tommy Lee Wallace Category:1988 English-language films Category:1988 American films Category:English-language teen comedy-drama films