Rotten
There are too many swooping violins, too many trite generalizations, too few moments that throw a light on history and turn it into art.
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Princess Kaiulani
Her heart was torn between love and the future of Hawaii...
2010 · 2h 10m · PG
Drama
Directed by
Marc Forby
Free account saves your watchlist and ratings.
Princess Kaiulani
Overview
Ka'iulani, a 19th-century Hawaiian princess, is raised in England but determined to maintain her people's independence from aggressive American businessmen. After being sent to England as a child by her Scottish father, Ka'iulani returns to Hawaii and becomes a political activist who fights to retain her throne, even though she must leave her English paramour.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
18%
Tomatometer
Rotten
As the doomed princess, Q'orianka Kilcher ... has imperially striking features but limited acting skills.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
An uneven film that, by trying to satisfy parents with political drama and older children with a love story, leaves both parties wanting.
Rachel Saslow, Washington Post
Rotten
Watching Princess Kaiulani, you're not sure whether to weep for the title character or the actress playing her.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Rotten
Kilcher is lovely. But sadly, Ka'iulani is a perfunctory biopic of the sort one might encounter on television during Women's History Month.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
More films
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Drama · War · PG-13
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastati...
- Runtime
- 3h 3m
- Director
- Michael Bay
- Cast
- Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale
IMDb
6.3
Rotten Tomatoes
24%
Metacritic
44
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
Drama · History · PG-13
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Director
- Stephen Frears
- Cast
- Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith
IMDb
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes
65%
Metacritic
58
Emperor (2012)
Drama · History · War · PG-13
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Director
- Peter Webber
- Cast
- Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune
IMDb
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes
31%
Metacritic
48
Skin (2009)
Drama · PG-13
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Director
- Anthony Fabian
- Cast
- Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige
IMDb
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes
85%
Metacritic
62
Fatima (2020)
Drama · PG-13
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of ...
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Cast
- Harvey Keitel, Sônia Braga, Goran Višnjić
IMDb
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes
58%
Metacritic
50
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Crime · Drama · Thriller · R
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as...
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Director
- Jonathan Demme
- Cast
- Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
IMDb
8.6
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Metacritic
86
Philadelphia (1993)
Drama · PG-13
Two lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
- Runtime
- 2h 6m
- Director
- Jonathan Demme
- Cast
- Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards
IMDb
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes
81%
Metacritic
66
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Mystery · Thriller · R
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mys...
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Director
- Jonathan Demme
- Cast
- Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber
IMDb
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes
79%
Metacritic
76
Stop Making Sense (1984)
Documentary · Music · PG
A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Director
- Jonathan Demme
- Cast
- David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison
IMDb
8.7
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Metacritic
94
Something Wild (1986)
Comedy · Crime · Romance · R
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Director
- Jonathan Demme
- Cast
- Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta
IMDb
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
Metacritic
73
Comments
Talk about the film with other members