Patrick Swayze, who stared as the seductive dance instructor, Johnny, in Dirty Dancing makes a cameo appearance in Havana Nights.

• "If you go to Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights to enjoy the sexiness of the two young leads, Romola Garai and Diego Luna, you're not likely to be disappointed. Garai and Luna carry Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights on their shoulders, and they have to, because in almost every other way, it's a slipshod piece of work."—SalonSalon: Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights Review (February 27, 2004)

• "...in the 17 years since Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey locked hips in the 1987 romance that became the guilty pleasure of a generation, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights is less a sequel than a revisitation in a new setting of the same themes of young love, self-discovery and sexualized dance. Swapping early 1960s Catskills for late '50s Cuba -- against the backdrop of Castro's revolution no less -- the superficial but entertaining new pic offers equal parts freshness and kitsch appeal set to a pulsating Latin soundtrack."—VarietyVariety: Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights Review (February 27, 2004)

• Diego Luna as Javier Suarez
• Romola Garai as Katey Miller
• Sela Ward as Jeannie Miller
• John Slattery as Bert Miller
• Patrick Swayze as Dance Class Instructor
• January Jones as Eve
• Jonathan Jackson as James Phelps
• Mika Boorem as Susie Miller
• Rene Lavan as Carlos Suarez