Plot Synopsis:
Hawaii is director George Roy Hill’s (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting) big screen adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener’s novel of the same name, an epic tale of passion and peril set in a tropical paradise. Max Von Sydow (The Exorcist) and Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) are the Reverend Abner Hale and his wife Jerusha, missionaries who travel to Hawaii to convert the natives to Christianity, only to find that they’ve instead brought destruction.