Taglines: Two young lovers in a city of dreams.
Aloha, Bobby and Rose movie storyline. In 1970s Hollywood, Bobby works as an auto mechanic by day, and shoots pool and races his red 1968 Chevrolet Camaro by night. His friend Moxey is excited to be accepted to transmission school and build his skills for a better paying job. The less responsible Bobby seems to have no such direction in life and is still relying on his Uncle Charlie, a used-car salesman, to help him out of jams, such as by loaning him money to pay off his pool game bets to some menacing Chicanos.
Rose is the young single mother of a 5-year-old son. Rose and her son live with Rose’s romantic mother, who minds the little boy while Rose works at a car wash. Bobby meets Rose when he personally delivers her VW Beetle Cabriolet, on which his garage had worked, back to her at the car wash. Bobby tries to charm Rose into giving him a quick ride back to his work, but she refuses and tells him to take the bus.
Later, when she gets off work, she sees him unsuccessfully trying to hitchhike in the rain (presumably lacking even 40 cents bus fare) and picks him up. When Rose stops at her house to change, Bobby discovers she has a young son, but isn’t bothered by it and even spends time talking to the boy. Rose’s mother is planning to take her grandson to the movies and then on to Disneyland for the weekend, and, seeing Rose and Bobby are attracted to each other, encourages Rose to go have fun with Bobby.
Bobby and Rose go on a date, including ice skating (though Bobby can’t skate), window shopping, a stop at Pink’s Hot Dogs, parking under the Hollywood Sign, and cruising the Sunset Strip. They daydream about moving to Hawaii. During a stop at a convenience store for wine, Bobby pulls a prank on the teenage store clerk by pretending he is a robber with a fake gun (actually a stick of beef jerky). But the joke backfires when the shop owner emerges from the back room with a shotgun pointed at Bobby. To save Bobby, Rose hits the owner over the head with a bottle, and as he falls, the gun goes off, accidentally killing the young clerk.
Bobby and Rose flee, first in Rose’s VW (which they crash) and then in Bobby’s red Camaro, heading for Mexico. Rose misses her son and at one point boards a bus to return home, but finds she cannot leave Bobby and gets back off the bus. In San Diego, the pair meet flamboyant Texans Buford and his girlfriend Donna Sue driving a Lincoln Continental Mark III, who invite Bobby and Rose to go to Mexico with them. The two couples travel to Tijuana where Buford and Bobby bond in the party atmosphere, but Rose still misses her son, so Bobby and Rose leave Mexico and return to Los Angeles to get him.
Aloha, Bobby and Rose is a 1975 American road drama film written and directed by Floyd Mutrux and starring Paul Le Mat, Dianne Hull, Tim McIntire, Leigh French, Martine Bartlett, Noble Willingham, Robert Carradine, Erick Hines, Mario Gallo, Tony Gardenas, Edward James Olmos and Tip Fredell. The plot is about a young working-class couple who accidentally cause the death of a store clerk during their first date, and go on the run from the law.
Aloha, Bobby and Rose (1975)
Directed by: Floyd Mutrux
Starring: Paul Le Mat, Dianne Hull, Tim McIntire, Leigh French, Martine Bartlett, Noble Willingham, Robert Carradine, Erick Hines, Mario Gallo, Tony Gardenas, Edward James Olmos, Tip Fredell
Screenplay by: Floyd Mutrux
Cinematography by: William A. Fraker
Film Editing by: Danford B. Greene
Costume Design by: Shelly Levine
Makeup Department: John Norin
Music by: Jaime Mendoza-Nava
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: April 23, 1975 (United States), March 20, 1976 (West Germany)
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