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In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement.In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement.In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 nominations total
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- TriviaActor Raul Julia appeared in a significant supporting role in the film without any credit or billing at all in the film. Julia chose to be uncredited because producers for contractual reasons could not accommodate Julia's request for him to be billed second alongside Robert Redford, as the top two above-the-title star-teaming credits had already been signed over to top first-billed Redford and second-billed actress Lena Olin, with the third billed credit already having been contracted to actor Alan Arkin. According to the "LA Times," Raul Julia's agent Jeff Hunter said: "Our usual above-the-title credit wasn't available. So, we decided not to take any credit at all." Director Sydney Pollack said told the same paper: "The only billing left for Julia was to be stacked with the rest of the names . . . his agent felt that would be a step backward" and there is a dilemma when there is "an actor on the ascendancy, like [Raul] Julia, and you ask the actor to do a role that's somewhat smaller [than their emerging star status]." Julia had found rising-star status since his performance in the Academy Award winning film Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985).
- GoofsAlthough the film is set in 1958, the garage scene uses a 1961 re-recorded version of Rum And Coca Cola by The Andrews Sisters. This version was recorded for Dot Records, two years after the movie's setting.
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Jack Weil, played by Robert Redford, feels at home in this corrupt city
He's a professional gambler looking for the game of his life
He played in every Elks Club and Moose Hall in America
He remembers every hand of every game and now he wants a shot, only one shot in Havana
But while he is on the verge of winning everything Bobby Duran (Lena Olin) has lost all she ever knew Olin plays the wife of a Cuban revolutionary, Raul Julia Bobby has nothing to lose or to protect And in a super-natural and strange way Jack reaches her And so, as Cuba crumbles Jack is drawn in Bobby's world of the revolutionaries and, in one crucial moment he sees himself he must choose between the greatest card game of his life and the woman he loves
There's a kind of exotic combination between Redford and Olin's characters Between Redford's very American, blond, golden look and Olin's dark, intense Swedish expression
Sydney Pollack's "Havana" is a love story that takes place during the week of Christmas, 1958 which was the last week Batista was in power before Castro came in It was the last week of this kind of a circus that Havana was An attractive city full of gambling, of burlesque, of every kind of hedonistic pleasure possible
But while he is on the verge of winning everything Bobby Duran (Lena Olin) has lost all she ever knew Olin plays the wife of a Cuban revolutionary, Raul Julia Bobby has nothing to lose or to protect And in a super-natural and strange way Jack reaches her And so, as Cuba crumbles Jack is drawn in Bobby's world of the revolutionaries and, in one crucial moment he sees himself he must choose between the greatest card game of his life and the woman he loves
There's a kind of exotic combination between Redford and Olin's characters Between Redford's very American, blond, golden look and Olin's dark, intense Swedish expression
Sydney Pollack's "Havana" is a love story that takes place during the week of Christmas, 1958 which was the last week Batista was in power before Castro came in It was the last week of this kind of a circus that Havana was An attractive city full of gambling, of burlesque, of every kind of hedonistic pleasure possible
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- Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $9,243,140
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,175,360
- Dec 16, 1990
- Gross worldwide
- $9,645,440
- Runtime2 hours 24 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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