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Friday, May 14, 2010

Princess Kaiulani

GENERAL INFORMATION
Release Info: 14 May 2010
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Staring:  Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper Shaun Evans
Rating? PG
SPOILERS? Not if you know history

REVIEWS
IMDB: 6.1 of 10
MY RATING: 3

STORYLINE
The story of a Hawaiian Princess' attempt to maintain the independence of the island against the threat of American Colonization.

MY REVIEW:
It's not a bad bio-pic, and I wouldn't exactly call it a biography. It was close and a little one-sided. They got at least one of the big points right, Princess Ka'iulani was a real person. She was brave, charming and smart. Some of the other pieces were true as well, she was educated in England and did visit President Cleveland. Yes, her family was suppressed when the US took over Hawaii. She tried, in vain, to help her country and people.

As much as she failed in this valiant attempt, she did at least delay the inevitable. She was ill for a very long time and died in her 20's.

I wish they would have stopped trying to tell the story that they wish would have been and stuck to the facts.
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