Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights Page #5

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Director(s): Guy Ferland
Production: Artisan Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
39
Rotten Tomatoes:
23%
PG-13
Year:
2004
86 min
$14,140,215
Website
1,355 Views


Tell me.

Carlos...

he always said that

when the revolution came...

Castro will kick out

all the Yankee companies.

But you don't really know that.

No. I'm just saying that...

What, that I might

have to leave?

It could happen.

But they wouldn't do that...

not if the whole idea

is to give people their freedom.

Cuban people.

Well, then,

you'll come with us.

I'm sure my dad

can work it out.

And my family?

We'll send for them, just like

we were always gonna do.

Katey, I wanted to leave

because of Batista, but now--

But you don't know

what life will be like here.

I mean, what if

it doesn't get better?

My father died for this.

I have to believe it will.

I can make a difference here.

You showed me that.

This is my country.

It's my home.

Oh, thank God.

Katey, are you OK?

We're leaving.

Yeah. Your father's

making arrangements.

Give me that comb.

When you were little, you used

to hide under the bed...

when I'd try

to comb out these knots.

Katey, your father's been

the only man in my life...

so I don't know what it's like

to say good-bye to someone.

Saying good-bye to dancing,

the other love of my life...

it broke my heart.

Then you were born,

and then Susie...

and I loved you both

so much that I--

- You're saying I'll get over it.

- No, I'm not. No.

No. I'm saying

I know you're hurting.

Everything's such a mess.

You have a choice.

You can do nothing.

You can hide under the bed...

Or you can

work through the knots.

I'm gonna miss you.

I'm gonna miss you, too.

I am taking you with me.

I am keeping you here.

Javier once said

that dancing...

is about being exactly who

you wanna be in that moment.

Dancing with him,

I realized I was becoming...

exactly the woman

I wanted to be.

We didn't win the contest...

but we did win something

more important to us.

On my last night in Havana...

we were king and queen

of La Rosa Negra.

We didn't know when

we would see each other again...

but we knew that this

wasn't our last dance.

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Boaz Yakin

Boaz Yakin (born June 20, 1966) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer based in New York City. He has penned the screenplays to films like The Rookie, A Price Above Rubies, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and Now You See Me, and has directed the 2000 sports drama Remember the Titans and the 2012 Jason Statham action film Safe. As a producer he has collaborated frequently with filmmaker Eli Roth and served as executive producer for the first two entries in the Hostel franchise. more…

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