Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

DIRTY DANCING fans shouldn't count on having the time of their lives at this reimagining (not a sequel, not a remake... a reimagining) in which choreographer JoAnn Jansen's experiences as a teenager in Cuba are meshed with DIRTY DANCING's story of racy dance moves and mismatched lovers. The major difference between this year's model and its predecessor is the setting: Instead of unfolding in the Catskills in the early 1960s, the action now takes place in Havana in November 1958, right before Cuban revolutionaries deposed U.S.-friendly dictator Fulgencio Batista. Bookish American high-school senior Katey Miller (Romola Garai) finds herself transplanted to Havan...