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"The Early Show" (1999): :  -- Maggie Rodriguez takes 'The Early Show' to Little Havana, a neighborhood in Miami, Fla. settled by émigrés from Cuba that evokes the rich culture of their country.

Overview

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4.8/10   236 votes
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Director:
Gillian Armstrong
Writer (WGA):
Cynthia Cidre (written by)
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Release Date:
28 June 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Released after years as a political prisoner, a Cuban rejoins his wife and daughter in Miami. | add synopsis
User Comments:
slim but reasonable film more

Cast

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Jimmy Smits ... Nestor
Greta Scacchi ... Isabel

Vincent D'Onofrio ... Sam

Luis Avalos ... Victor Hernandez

Bertila Damas ... Estella Sanchez
Raúl Dávila ... Reuben (as Raul Davila)
Bri Hathaway ... Marivi
Daniel Fern ... Jorge
Earl Hindman ... Sergeant
Kevin Duffis ... Jaime

Victor Rivers ... Angel
Lázaro Pérez ... Raul (as Lazaro Perez)
Angelina Estrada ... Olga Rodriquez
Julia Rodriquez Elliot ... Nancy Hernandez
Maria Vidal ... Michele
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Little Havana (USA)
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Runtime:
86 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Miami, Florida, USA

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Soundtrack:
Vino, mujeres y canto more

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slim but reasonable film, 25 June 2006
8/10
Author: leslieann-1 from United Kingdom

Beautiful film that is skewered not only by the distracting editing, as your previous commentator mentions, but also by the confused message...anti-Castro Cubans in the USA are numerous, but we have learned - often from the movies, like Scarface or that excellent film about a gay Cuban poet who flees Cuba - that there are many ambiguities in that life - they are simplified and reduced here too much. Isabel is very passive and perhaps traumatised to an extent that is not really illuminated. it is a terrific idea that the Cuban husband is a mild-mannered type and that the American who saved her from the sea is hot - interesting to watch; in fact, also, it is the American (d'Onofrio) who makes the point of the film, that is so under-stated and ambivalent - that the Cuban husband must choose between politics and his family. the film is interesting and exasperatingly under-stated. this could have been developed into something far more intriguing - one other good point: it is fascinating to see Hispanic Miami in all its glamour and tawdriness, however. overall, the film is really underdeveloped.

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