Havana Nights

The 2004 film, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, is a prequel to 1987's Dirty Dancing. Like the original film, Havana Nights revolves around a young, naive middle class woman (Romola Garai) who feels alienated by her surroundings until she connects with a blue-collar dance instructor (Diego Luna). Although Dirty Dancing was set in peaceful New York State, Havana Nights is set in Cuba.

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