History Film / FindingOhana

When Pili finds a journal in Kimo's house containing clues to a treasure, she and her new friend Casper (Owen Vaccaro) attempt to track it down in order to save her grandfather's home, Ioane and Casper's friend Hana (Lindsay Watson) getting wrapped into it as well.

* SuperDrowningSkills: Pili never learned how to swim, to both Kimo and Casper's shock. Kimo plans on teaching her, but he doesn't get around to doing it due to getting a second heart attack and having to go to the hospital. She sort of learns how to swim when Ioane drowns, but Casper has to coach her to reach the shore.

* GoodTimesMontage: The film ends with Pili and Ioane having fun with Hana and Casper in various spots around Oahu.

* KissDiss: Happens between Hana and Ioane when they've found the treasure and the latter tries going for a kiss, only for his lips to meet her iPhone as she says it's time to do celebratory selfies instead. They end up sharing a real kiss in the aftermath of the climax.

* SecretStabWound: After Ioane gets bitten by a brown violin spider, he makes Casper keep it between them as to not worry Pili and Hana.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Pili never learned how to swim, to both Kimo and Casper's shock. Kimo plans on teaching her, but he doesn't get around to doing it due to getting a second heart attack and having to go to the hospital. She sort of learns how to swim when Ioane's drowning and Casper has to coach her to reach the shore.

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''Finding 'Ohana'' is a 2021 American family film directed by Creator/JudeWeng and written by Christina Strain. The film stars Creator/KellyHu, Creator/BranscombeRichmond, Kea Peahu, Alex Aiono, Lindsay Watson, and Owen Vaccaro.

* GenreShift: ''Finding 'Ohana'' starts out as as a fairly mundane kid's movie about connecting to one's roots while trying to find treasure in a 2020s homage to ''Film/TheGoonies'', [[spoiler:but its climax shifts things into the explicitly supernatural with the introduction of the Nightmarchers, who start hunting the group down for disturbing the tomb the treasure is located in.]]

* MilitaryBrat: Pili and Ioane's father joined the US Army when both were young, and died in combat. While Ioane has some memories of him, Pili doesn't remember him at all due to being a baby at the time.

* NoAntagonist: ''Finding 'Ohana'' has no true antagonists, [[spoiler:and even the Nightmarchers merely want the gold taken from the tomb back and leave once that's taken care of without harming anyone.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Finding 'Ohana'' can be considered a spiritual successor to ''Film/TheGoonies'', being a movie where some children and teenagers try to find pirate treasure in order to save a home from foreclosure.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Probably the first movie ever to feature a Kauai cave wolf spider.

* MoodWhiplash: The celebratory mood of the scene where the group finds the treasure is slowly progresses to a more somber one when Hana realizes [[spoiler:it's located in a tomb, and therefore they can't keep any of it or tell anyone, lest the cave get combed over by selfish tourists and other thrill seekers on the mundane end. This is on top of the danger of the Nightmarcher's violent response to such disrespect to a final resting place.]]

* MilitaryBrat: Pili and Ione's father joined the US Army when both were young, and died in combat. While Ioane has some memories of him, Pili doesn't remember him at all due to being a baby at the time.

** Hana has acrophobia, which comes into play when they have to sidle along a lava pit and she has problems moving forward.

* MoodWhiplash: The celebratory mood of the scene where the group finds the treasure is lowly progresses to a more somber one when Hana realizes [[spoiler:it's located in a tomb, and therefore they can't keep any of it or tell anyone, lest the cave get combed over by selfish tourists and other thrill seekers on the mundane end. This is on top of the danger of the Nightmarcher's violent response to such disrespect to a final resting place.]]

* MoodWhiplash: The celebratory mood of the scene where the group finds the treasure is changed to a more somber one when Hana realizes [[spoiler:it's located in a tomb, and therefore they can't keep any of it or tell anyone, lest the cave get combed over by selfish tourists and other thrill seekers on the mundane end. This is on top of the danger of the Nightmarcher's violent response to such disrespect to a final resting place.]]

* AmbiguouslyGay: Casper shows no overt attraction to either Pili or Hana, but does talk about Ioane's muscles several times.

* MistakenNationality: In Brooklyn, so many people assume Pili is Puerto Rican that she decided to learn Spanish, which comes in handy at the beginning of the story when she needs to tell her geocaching partner which safe combination to use without the opposing team knowing.

* HitodamaLight: [[spoiler:When the presence of the Nightmarchers becomes evident, the regularly lit torches switch to blue, and the Nightmarchers themselves carry torches with blue flames. When their procession ends and they go to the sea, they turn into glowing balls of blue light before going underwater.]]

* KidsDrivingCars: Pili and Casper sneak out while Ioane's sleeping and drive to Kualoa Ranch.[[note]]The former strapping soda can containers to her feet so that she can reach the pedals.[[/note]] It turns out that Pili can actually drive decently well and they manage not to crash the car or end up in any accidents, though she has issues staying in one lane, and they have to stop for a moment to let Casper throw up on the side of the road due to motion sickness induced from Pili's driving.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: As Ioane, Hana, and Casper attempt to pull up a rock-filled weight, he admits he's not as strong as he looks because all he did was do one [=CrossFit=] course which gave him definition, but not much else in the way of strength.
* MoodWhiplash: The celebratory mood of the scene where the group finds the treasure is changed to a more somber one when Hana realizes [[spoiler:it's located in a tomb, and therefore they can't keep any of it or tell anyone lest the cave get combed over by selfish tourists and other thrill seekers, on top of the danger of the Nightmarcher's response to such disrespect to a final resting place.]]
* NoAntagonist: ''Finding 'Ohana'' has no true antagonists, [[spoiler:and even the Nightmarchers merely want the gold taken from the tomb back.]]

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Probably the only movie ever to feature a Kauai cave wolf spider.

* TakeThat: When Pili and Casper visit Kualoa Ranch, where ''Series/{{Lost}}'' was filmed, Casper mentions that while he recognizes how influential the show was, he also feels it wasn't actually all that good and people's investment in it even years later is only because they don't want to admit that they'd placed so much investment into a show with such a poor ending.
* TokenWhite: Casper is the only white person of note to appear in the movie apart from the pirates in the {{Imagine Spot}} sequences, and the only white person in the main cast.

* GenreShift: ''Finding 'Ohana'' starts out as as a fairly mundane kid's movie about connecting to one's roots, [[spoiler:but its climax shifts things into the explicitly supernatural with the introduction of the Nightmarchers, who start hunting the group down for disturbing the tomb the treasure is located in.]]

When Pili finds a journal in Kimo's house containing clues to a treasure, she and her new friend Casper (Owen Vaccaro) attempt to track it down in order to save her grandfather's home, Ioane and Casper's friend Hana (Lindsay Watson) getting wrapped into it was well.