Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Romola Garai as Katey Miller
• Diego Luna as Javier Suarez
• Sela Ward as Jeannie Miller
• John Slattery as Bert Miller
• Mika Boorem as Susie Miller
• Jonathan Jackson as James Phelps
• Rene Lavan as Carlos Suarez
• Patrick Swayze as Dance Class Instructor
• January Jones as Eve
• Mýa Harrison as Lola Martinez
• Angélica Aragón as Mrs. Suarez
• Kaly Cordova as Dancer

Storyline:

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.

About Movie:

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights is an American dance musical romance film directed by Guy Ferland and starring Diego Luna, Romola Garai, Sela Ward, John Slattery, Jonathan Jackson, January Jones, and Mika Boorem.

The film is a standalone prequel of the 1987 blockbuster Dirty Dancing, and serves as the second feature film in the titular franchise.

While the movie follows a similar plot structure, the story takes place in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution. Patrick Swayze, star of the original film, appears as a dance instructor.

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