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Before Night Falls (2000)

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Release Date: December 22, 2000 (Limited)
January 26, 2001
Genre: Drama, Foreign
Running Time: 133 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong sexual content, some language and brief violence.
Director: Julian Schnabel
Writer: Julian Schnabel, Cunningham O'Keefe, Lazaro Gomez Carriles
Cast: Sebastian Silva, Vito Schnabel, Najwa Nimri, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Hector Babenco, Michael Wincott, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Andrea Di Stefano, Olivier Martinez, Javier Bardem

The true story of Reinaldo Arenas, an award-winning writer and homosexual who faced prosecution in Castro's Cuba, and who finally made it to the United States in the 1980's. Read more

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Grade: B- You've probably never experienced Cuba through the eyes of an exiled writer who just happens to be homosexual, or Cuba at all for that matter, but see Before Night Falls and you might catch a glimpse of what it is like. Read the full movie review

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