Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights is a 2004 United States musical/romance film directed by Guy Ferland. This film is a prequel to the 1987 blockbuster Dirty Dancing, reusing the same basic plot, but transplanting it from upstate New York to Cuba on the cusp of the Cuban Revolution.
Shy, intelligent, eighteen-year-old Katey Miller (Romola Garai) moves from United States to Havana, Cuba with her parents in November 1958, just before the Revolution break...
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Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights is a 2004 United States musical/romance film directed by Guy Ferland. This film is a prequel to the 1987 blockbuster Dirty Dancing, reusing the same basic plot, but transplanting it from upstate New York to Cuba on the cusp of the Cuban Revolution.
Shy, intelligent, eighteen-year-old Katey Miller (Romola Garai) moves from United States to Havana, Cuba with her parents in November 1958, just before the Revolution breaks out. Her parents (Sela Ward and John Slattery) expect her to move within their well-to-do circles, but she defies their wish when she falls in love with Javier Suarez (Diego Luna), a waiter who also happens to be a talented club dancer. Secretly meeting in a Havana nightclub the pair practice their Salsa dance routine in preparation for a prestigious national dance competition.
However, Katey's parents are ex-professional dancers who trained her in ballroom dancing, whereas Javier has been trained in the titular Cuban style of dirty dancing,...
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