The political passions that roiled 1969 America get boiled down to Nicholas Sparks-style mush in this silly romantic drama, seemingly designed primarily to offer up the shirtless, non-period-authentic abs of Liam Hemsworth (“The Hunger Games’’) as often as possible.
He plays a horny soldier tagging along when his earnest buddy (Austin Stowell) decides to spend a seven-day leave stateside during the Vietnam War by dropping in on a girlfriend who sent him a Dear John letter.
Arriving at her Ann Arbor, Mich., campus, they discover she’s an antiwar activist living in a pair of erstwhile Disney screenwriters’ hilarious idea of a ’60s commune.
To better fit in, Hemsworth lies that he and Stowell are deserters, which leads to novice director Danny Mooney’s even funnier depiction of a protest rally, as well as the usual romantic complications when the ruse is discovered.
“Love and Honor’’ may be politically clueless, but Hemsworth and the student journalist he hooks up with (fellow Aussie Teresa Palmer of “Warm Bodies’’) do make an undeniably attractive couple.