Havana
by Sydney Pollack
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Actor: Alan Arkin, Daniel Davis, Lena Olin, Robert Redford, Tomas MilianDirector: Sydney Pollack
Brand: Universal
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 145 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-11-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Havana
Movie Review: Havana Movie Soundtrack
Summary: 5 Stars
I really liked the music. Particularly when Robert Redford enters a club and there's a male singer (whose voice sounds alot like Jon Lucien). This same song plays at the end of the movie while the credits are rolling. I wonder who the artist is. They should have made a soundtrack of the movie. I would have bought it, just for that song.
Summary of Havana
A high stakes gambler hustles for one last big score before the revolution overtakes havana. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/06/2004 Starring: Robert Redford Lena Olin Run time: 145 minutes Rating: R Director: Sydney PollackWhen Havana was released in 1990, a lot of reviewers unfavorably compared it to Casablanca, and those comparisons (in addition to audience indifference) turned the film into a box-office disaster. It deserved a better fate, because, while this is certainly no masterpiece, it's an intelligent and lavishly produced film about a chapter of history--the final days of Cuba under the collapsing Batista regime--that remains largely unfamiliar to the American mainstream. It's a compelling political backdrop for the story of a high-stakes gambler (Robert Redford) who comes to Cuba seeking the big score in poker games, following his expectation that high rollers will bet wildly as the Cuban government crashes around their heads. In Havana, Redford meets the wife (Lena Olin) of a Communist revolutionary (Raul Julia) with ties to Fidel Castro, and their attraction becomes powerfully mutual after her husband is presumed killed by Cuban police. What follows, as Cuba falls and Redford's character is forced into a crisis of conscience, is a mini-epic love story with tragic overtones, handled with great skill (albeit lagging pace) by long-time Redford collaborator Sydney Pollack. True, it's not nearly as memorable as Casablanca, but this is a worthwhile film, especially if you're interested in the political upheavals in pre-Castro Cuba. --Jeff Shannon
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