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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Studio: Miramax Films
Release Date: Feb 27, 2004
Running Time: 86 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Havana: November, 1958. Eighteen-year-old Katey Miller brings an innate curiosity--and a smattering of Spanish--to her new life in Cuba’s lush capital, where her father has taken an executive posting at Chrysler. Schooled by her parents in the art of ballroom dancing, Katey is expected to join the smart set of American teenagers who are the Miller’s neighbors at the exclusive Oceana Hotel. But Katey finds herself drawn instead to the proud, purposeful Javier--a waiter who also happens to be brilliant dancer. Determined to learn the slinky, spectacular moves that Javier seems to know in his bones, Katey persuades him to partner with her in a prestigious national dance competition at a grand local nightclub, The Palace. Meeting secretly in an out-of-the-way Havana nightclub, Katey and Javier practice their steps--their bodies aligning in a sensual harmony that mirrors the growing passion between them. As the night of the contest finally arrives, Katey and Javier are ready to take their place as a couple on the dance floor--unaware that the country club, and the streets of Havana itself, are about to erupt in revolutionary violence.
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Director
Javier Suarez
Katey Miller
Jeannie Miller
Bert Miller
James Phelps
Eve
Susie Miller
Carlos Suarez
Lola Martinez
Polly
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reviews
February 24, 2004
Pre-castro Cuba, circa 1958 -- and the Latin dance beat is hotter, so why does this so-called companion piece to 1987's Dirty Dancing fail to ignite? Maybe it's familiarity. In Dirty Dancing, set in a Catskills resort in the early 1960s, older man Patrick Swayze taught Baby (Jennifer Grey) about dance and sex in ways that shocked her Jewish parents and titillated teens, who still gobble up the film on DVD. In the new film, Y Tu Mama Tambien stud muffin Diego Luna plays a Cuban waiter who teaches
Havana, Cuba, circa 1958--where the temperatures are hot and the salsa dancers even hotter--provides the perfect setting for another cornball Dirty Dancing movie. Story Havana Nights is based on the real-life story of co-producer/choreographer JoAnn Jansen, who moved to Havana in 1958 with her family and fell in love with the culture and the dancing, as well as a Cuban boy. Here, Katey Miller (Romola Garai) resents the fact she is being uprooted from her middle-class American life to live in
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