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Release Date
• USA: Dec 12, 1990
DVD Release Date
• R1: Nov 17, 1998
• R2: 7 Feb 2005
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 20 minutes
Country USA
Studio Mirage, Universal
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Other Titles
• Havana
• Havanna (1991)
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Genre: Drama, Scams And Cons, Political, Love, Love Triangle, Gangsters
Tagline: 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.
Plot: Director Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford join forces to tell the story of high-rolling gambler Jack Weil. Hoping to be pushed to the edge in a place ripe for action, Weil heads to Havana at Christmastime, 1958. Cuba is experiencing prerevolutionary rumblings, and he has a theory that gamblers are more adventuresome when the bullets start flying. Once he arrives, he ends up falling in with revolutionaries and meets a glamorous Swede named Bobby Duran (Lena Olin) and her wealthy husband, revolutionary leader Arturo Duran. Suddenly Jack finds himself making radical gestures, braving financial loss and life-threatening situations in an attempt to save her from dictator Batista’s men. Sexual attraction slowly leads the way to political awareness, matching the amount of time it takes for the beginnings of social change. Pollack and Redford’s seventh collaboration has a dramatic romantic sweep that’s augmented by crisp luminous images that create a sense of heightened reality.
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| Written by |
Judith Rascoe
Endless Love, Who'll Stop the Rain, Eat a Bowl of Tea |
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| Cast |
Robert Redford
The Sting, Spy Game, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
 | Lena Olin
Chocolat, The Ninth Gate, Mystery Men |
 | Alan Arkin
Edward Scissorhands, Gattaca, Grosse Pointe Blank |
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 | Mark Rydell
Hollywood Ending, Punchline, The Long Goodbye |
 | Daniel Davis
The Hunt for Red October, K-9, Columbo: No Time to Die | |
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