Actor-director Andy Garcia was 5 1/2 when his family fled Havana in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, and spent 16 years trying to produce this adaptation of Guillermo Cabrera Infante's acclaimed historical novel
Three Trapped Tigers. The close-knit Fellove family represents the best and brightest of Havana society: Patriarch Federico Fellove (Tomas Milian) is a respected university professor, his wife Dona Cecelia (Millie Perkins) the epitome of a devoted mother and gracious hostess, and his childless brother, Donoso (Richard Bradford), owns a tobacco plantation. Don Federico's eldest son, man-about-town Fico (Garcia), owns the popular El Tropico nightclub an...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
143 mins