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Cuba
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792852216
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792852214
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrench (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: D1003334D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 16, 2002
Running Time: 122 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 21, 1979
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Editorial Review:
One of Sean Connery's least-seen films, this Richard Lester vehicle manages to be both politically astute and darkly funny at the same time. Set in Cuba as the Castro revolution is coming to fruition, it stars Connery as an aging mercenary trying to decide which side it pays to be paid by. Even as the Batista government is being overthrown, he is putting the spark to an old relationship with a factory manager (Brooke Adams), while American businessmen (particularly a well-cast Jack Weston) scramble to get the most bang for their buck. Lester's style--playing dramatic scenes while subverting them with comic business in the background--is in top form here. But this film never found an audience; too bad. --Marshall Fine
Academy AwardÂ(r) winner* Sean Connery (Entrapment) and Brooke Adams (Gas Food Lodging) lead an all-star cast in this sweeping story of two old flames caught up in the chaos, fury and exhilaration of Cuba's revolution. Directed by Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night) andwritten by Charles Wood (The Charge of the Light Brigade), Cuba is an exciting and "intelligent thriller" (Roger Ebert). Havana, Cuba. 1959. A tropical island paradise is on the brink of revolution. Robert Dapes (Connery), a cynical British mercenary, comes to the country at the request of one of Batista's most corrupt functionaries, General Bello (Martin Balsam). But once there, Dapes finds himself unable to ignore the brutality and depravity of the Batista regimeand unable to resist Alexandra Pulido (Adams), an old lover now married to a wealthy Cuban landowner. Surrounded by volatile guerilla fighters and the human vultures present at all coups, he must come to terms with his shifting views if he has any thought of getting out alive. *1987: Supporting Actor, The Untouchables
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The beginning of Destroyed Dreams
Sean Connery is one of our favorite stars, so we were surprised to find this movie about Cuba. The movie is set in Cuba, as the government of Fulgencio Batista is overthrown by the revolutionaries, led by Fidel Castro and the likes of Che Guevara.
Connery plays the part of a mercenary trying to profit from the situation. He becomes involved with an old flame, who is now a factory manager of a family business. Sean Connery and Brooke Adams do a great job at imparting the trauma people ... Read More
Rating:  - Lester reveals a likable if none too demanding talent for adventure and love...
Richard Nester's 'Cuba' is set in the 1950's just in the Civil war against Batista's government...
Sean Connery stars as a free British counter-terrorist whom Batista's associates hope will help them beat Castro's revolutionaries...
Connery quickly figures out, almost as soon as he landed in the exotic and dangerous island, that the revolution will succeed and replace one elite with another... He gets much more interest in following an old sweetheart, and when the two see ... Read More
Rating:  - Riveting Film Without a Coherent Viewpoint
"Cuba" is a vastly engrossing film that doesn't fail to entertain. It is graced with superb acting, a witty script, and mesmerizing art direction. What it lacks is a coherent point of view. I wasn't sure what director Richard Lester was trying to say about the events surrounding the Cuban revolution. Also enigmatic is the film's main character, a British mercenary played by Sean Connery. It is no reflection on the performance by Connery but the way the character is written we are left puzzled throughout ... Read More
Rating:  - Well shot, terrible ideas
First off, I found this movie finely played and edited. But I was truly shocked at Lester's pro-Castro ideology. We're en 1979 for Christ sakes ! Can't we have some true historical facts ? Didn't you hear about the trials, the political prisoners, the crowds of people trying to escape the totalitarian regime ? No, the bad guys here are Batista people, potrayed like mere pigs. I'm glad this movie didn't catch people's attention, it's nothing but propaganda. And like a previous reviewer said, it must be Castro's ... Read More
Rating:  - A total mess - and not always in a good way
Richard Lester's Cuba was rushed into production with an unfinished script and more memorable for a troubled shoot that saw Sean Connery and Richard Lester at each others' throats than for anything that made it to the screen. Set in the last few days before Battista loses power, shown with such authentic period detail that no-one seems to remember it's supposed to be Christmas (the title card even gets the year wrong!), it's a plotless mosaic disinterestedly following Connery's mercenary supposedly advising the ... Read More
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