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The trailer is out for Cameron Crowe’s new movie "Aloha," and while its plot may focus on a disgraced military contractor played by Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper, the visuals scream Hawaii, where the story is set.
From Chinatown and the Hawaii Theatre to the North Shore, Crowe took advantage of Oahu’s scenic locations. His characters even wear maile leis. And if you look closely at the trailer, you get a bit of the island’s less glamorous spots and that may give the film a locals-only layer of authenticity.
Crowe shot the film in 2013, spending 63 days in Hawaii — considered a lot by local film industry standards — and used the islands as a stand-in for India and Afghanistan, according to the Honolulu Film Office.
Cooper, currently starring in "American Sniper," is joined by Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone, Bill Murray (in a haku lei), Alec Baldwin and John Krasinski.
He plays a once-celebrated military contractor who returns to the site of one of his greatest career triumphs — a U.S. space program in Hawaii. While in the islands, he reconnects with a lost love, played by McAdams, and at the same time falls hard for an Air Force handler (Emma Stone) who is assigned to him.
Crowe, who won a screenplay Oscar for the 2000 movie "Almost Famous," wrote and directed "Aloha." The film’s title was under wraps for months and always referred to as "The Untitled Cameron Crowe Project" until last week when Columbia Pictures announced the official name.
It will be in theaters May 29.
