Havana

Havana
  • Release date: 14 Dec 1990
  • Release year: 1990
  • Runtime: 144 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: cuba, american in cuba, pre revolutionary cuba, american in latin america, gambler, poker the card game, rebellion, rebel, year 1958, smuggling
Plot:
Cuba, December 1958: The professional gambler Jack visits Havana to organize a big Poker game. On the ship he meets Roberta and falls in love with her. Shortly after they arrive in Cuba, Roberta and her Cuban husband, the revolutionary Arturo, are arrested and tortured. Arturo is reported "shot while trying to escape," but Jack manages to get Roberta free again. He can't, however, keep her from continuing to support the revolution. Jack has to make a choice between the beautiful woman who keeps putting herself in harm's way and the biggest poker game of his life; between the man he could be and the man he is.
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