Iki Haole: Nico’s Hawaiian Adventure 1995

Iki Haole: Nico's Hawaiian Adventure 1995
53min | Reality-TV | Video 1995
Storyline:
15 year old Nico visits Hawaii and makes friends with David C. Naughton. Nico and the audience gets a tour of the beautiful state along with lots of surfing.
User review:
Iki Haole (E-kee HOW-lee), native Hawaiian for "My Little Foreign Friend," is the story of a 15-year-old Romanian kid on an adventure in Oahu. The movie stars Nico Almason (not pictured above) playing himself. Early on, a local boy named James, played by David Naughton, steps in to protect Nico from an angry surfer and, soon, the two become fast friends. Ultimately, they explore the entire island together, presenting leis to one another, eating pineapple on a plantation, swimming under a waterfall, exploring a legendary cave, practicing the hula, body-boarding, rafting, and skinny-dipping on a secluded beach.
Let me be frank. This movie is an easy one to give up on. At first, it seems like a low-budget surfing travelogue—just a teen wandering around Hawaii's beaches, coves, and pineapple plantations with an older local. (Yes, it's puzzling why a 15 year-old Romanian kid would be alone in Hawaii, but, hey, it's a movie, so don't ask.) Indeed, despite the movie's modest 53-minute length, the director had to resort to surfing scenes for filler. But don't give up on it. Here's why.