Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Category: Romance
All Genres: Romance, Drama
Release Year: 2004
Country: USA
Runtime: 86
Rating: 8.1 (0)
Languages: English, Spanish
Director: Guy Ferland
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Taglines:
Writing by: Kate Gunzinger - (story) and
Peter Sagal - (story)
Boaz Yakin - (screenplay) and
Victoria Arch - (screenplay)
Produced by: Lawrence Bender - producer
Jennifer Berman - executive producer
Rachel Cohen - executive producer
Sarah Green - producer
Trish Hofmann - co-producer
Trish Hofmann - line producer
JoAnn Fregalette Jansen - co-producer (as JoAnn Jansen)
Julie Kirkham - co-producer
Amir Jacob Malin - executive producer (as Amir Malin)
Bob Osher - executive producer
Meryl Poster - executive producer
Cast: Diego Luna - Javier Suarez
Romola Garai - Katey Miller
Sela Ward - Jeannie Miller
John Slattery - Bert Miller
Jonathan Jackson - James Phelps
January Jones - Eve
Mika Boorem - Susie Miller
René Lavan - Carlos Suarez
Mya - Lola Martinez (as Mya Harrison)
Polly Cole - Polly (as Polly Cusumano)
Chris Engen - Steph
Music: Heitor Pereira
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Plot Outline: In November 1958, the American teenager Katey Miller moves with her parents and her younger sister to Havana…
Plot: In November 1958, the American teenager Katey Miller moves with her parents and her younger sister to Havana. Her father is an executive of Ford expatriated to Cuba, and Katey is an excellent high school senior student that misses her friends. The family is lodged in a fancy hotel, where Katey accidentally meets the local teenage waiter Javier Suarez. Later she sees Javier dancing in a public square and they become friends, but he is fired from the hotel because her acquaintances have seen them together. Katey invites Javier to participate of a Latin Ballroom Contest in the local Palace club to help him to raise some money, and she secretly meets him in the La Rosa Negra nightclub for rehearsals. Later they fall in love for each other in times of revolution.
Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The second to last person thanked at the credits close is Akira Kurosawa–the Japanese filmmaker who filmed one of the Ghost Dogs central texts, Rashomon.
Goofs: We know about 6 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Crew or equipment visible: You can clearly see that Kateys dress strap is torn even before James tears it.
Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- The plot is loosely based on the life story of producer JoAnn Fregalette Jansen, who moved to Cuba with her family in 1958. Thus, the “Based on True Events” title.
- Diego Luna (Javier) is not a trained dancer, but learned the dances he needed for the movie in about six weeks. He has said that normally, he best dancing is done with a few beers in him.
- Neither Romola Garai nor Diego Luna (Katey and Javier) had any professional dance training. Before production began, the actors spent ten weeks in Puerto Rico, training for eight hours a day with producer JoAnn Fregalette Jansen and four additional dancer/choreographers.
