Filming began today on Oahu for "Flirting with 40," a made-for-television movie starring Heather Locklear.

Crews will be shooting for the next seven days on the North Shore, near Kualoa Ranch and in Waikiki, said Donne Dawson, state film commissioner.

The film is based on a romance novel by Jane Porter, a Seattle writer who spends time in the Islands.

Described as "lighthearted and poignant," the movie is being made for Lifetime Television and is expected to air in December.

Locklear stars as a divorced mother of two who finds herself alone in Hawai'i for her 40th birthday. But instead of boredom on the beach, she has a romantic encounter with a surf instructor.