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Havana (I) (1990) 6.0
Cuba, December 1958: The professional gambler Jack visits Havana to organize a big Poker game. On the ship he meets Roberta and falls in love with her. Shortly after they arrive in Cuba, ... See full summary » Director:Sydney Pollack |
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Bobby Duran
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Joe Volpi
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Willy
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Baby Hernandez
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Mike MacClaney
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Roy Forbes
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Cuba, December 1958: The professional gambler Jack visits Havana to organize a big Poker game. On the ship he meets Roberta and falls in love with her. Shortly after they arrive in Cuba, Roberta and her Cuban husband, the revolutionary Arturo, are arrested and tortured. Arturo is reported "shot while trying to escape," but Jack manages to get Roberta free again. He can't, however, keep her from continuing to support the revolution. Jack has to make a choice between the beautiful woman who keeps putting herself in harms way and the biggest poker game of his life; between the man he could be and the man he is. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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A gambler who trusted no one. A woman who risked everything. And a passion that brought them together in the most dangerous city in the world.Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
12 December 1990 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$40,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$9,243,140 (USA)Company Credits
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Bobby Duran: Were you waiting for me?
Jack Weil: All my life.
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Written by Roberto Nunez
Performed by Sierra Maestra (as Grupo Sierra Maestra)
Courtesy of Egrem Records
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The film was made and released approximately one decade after the subject similar and thematically related picture Cuba (1979) directed by Richard Lester. See more »Goofs
Although the film is set in 1958, the garage scene uses a 1961 re-recorded version of Rum And Coca Cola by The Andrews Sisters. This version was recorded for Dot Records, 2 years after the movies setting. See more »Quotes
[Bobby Duran enters a restaurant where Jack Weil is sitting]Bobby Duran: Were you waiting for me?
Jack Weil: All my life.
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A Los Rumberos de BelenWritten by Roberto Nunez
Performed by Sierra Maestra (as Grupo Sierra Maestra)
Courtesy of Egrem Records
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Many viewers have noted that Havana is essentially Casablanca in the Caribbean, which is certainly true. But I found the same apocalyptic tension in Havana as in Casablanca, although not quite as effective the second time around. Others criticized the dialogue. I thought it was exceptionally mature, and subtle, which may be what threw some of the reviewers in this forum, who maybe would have wanted something more bombastic. The plot development was very compressed - things had to happen very quickly, and so some thought they happened far too quickly. But I thought Olin in particular showed all of the pain and turmoil necessary to make her quick transitions of emotion believable. You have to believe that the times were so tumultuous that people had to adjust very quickly to changing circumstances. As for Jack falling in love with Bobby so fast, that's entirely believable, and the look they exchanged at the party where Jack meets her husband for the first time was our signal that this love affair was happening, and was one of those insane passions that overtake people, not infrequently, and in this case, again, against the apocalyptic backdrop of this incipient revolution, which made all involved feel very much at loose ends, ready for, or dreading, the vast changes about to happen to them. I though the end was too dragged out, but other than that, the movie mostly plausible.