Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)

Actors: Cassandra Barbour (miscellaneous crew), Joy Ellison (miscellaneous crew), Mya (actress), Angélica Aragón (actress), Sela Ward (actress), JoAnn Fregalette Jansen (producer), JoAnn Fregalette Jansen (actress), Lawrence Bender (producer), John Slattery (actor), Patrick Swayze (actor), Matt Birman (actor), Miranda Garrison (actress), Diego Luna (actor), JoAnn Fregalette Jansen (miscellaneous crew), Joel Goldes (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: 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.

Keywords: beach, coming-of-age, couple, cuba, dance-club, dance-instructor, dance-lesson, dancing, father-daughter-relationship, forbidden-love
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Turn up the heat and follow the rhythm Have the time of your life... all over again. Break the rules. Find your freedom. Live your life.

Quotes:

Eve: [Katey knocks into Javier's tray; he drops the glasses] Shit!::Katey Miller: Oh, I am so sorry! It's my fault!::Eve: [to Javier] No, just, just go get new drinks! Stupid Spic!

Javier Suarez: I'm sorry for what she called you.::Javier Suarez: That was nothing.::Katey Miller: Not to me.::Javier Suarez: Then why are *you* apologizing? [Walks away]

Katey Miller: What was it you called him?::Javier Suarez: Abuelito. It's my grandpa.

Jeannie Miller: For Heaven's sakes! Katey, why didn't you call me? For all I know, you could've been kidnapped by rebels.::Katey Miller: It's not the rebels you should be worried about.

Javier Suarez: [Sees Katey dancing rather unflatteringly] You're a pretty good dancer.::Katey Miller: [laughs] I was terrible.::Javier Suarez: Well, yeah. Yeah, you were terrible. But for an American, you move well.::Katey Miller: Oh, thanks.

Javier Suarez: I didn't want to waste the music.

Dance Class Instructor: Listen to me. I know that it's scary as hell to let another person touch that part of you. But if you do... [smiles and puts her hand on his shoulder] It's worth it.

Katey Miller: [Watching the Cubans 'dirty dancing'] Look at the way they feel the music.::James Phelps: They're feeling it, all right.

Voice Over PA System: President Batista has fled the country. There is no immediate danger.

Javier Suarez: It's like dancing with my mother's ironing board.