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| Florida Straits | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Action Adventure Romance |
| Written by | Roderick Taylor (screenplay) |
| Directed by | Mike Hodges |
| Starring | Raul Julia Fred Ward Daniel Jenkins |
| Music by | Michael Colombier |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Bob Cooper |
| Producers | Stuart B. Rekant John D. Schofield (associate producer) (as John Schofield) Stephen L. Wald (co-producer) |
| Cinematography | Dennis C. Lewiston |
| Editor | Edward M. Abroms |
| Running time | 97 minutes |
| Production company | HBO Pictures |
| Distributor | HBO |
| Release | |
| Original network | HBO |
| Picture format | Color |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | October 26, 1986 |
Florida Straits is a 1986 made-for-television adventure film that originally aired on HBO. It stars Fred Ward, Raul Julia, Daniel Jenkins and Antonio Fargas.[1] The film had several theatrical releases in other countries as well as video premieres in later years but it originally aired in 1986. The production was filmed in South Carolina standing in for Cuba in the 1980s. It was one of a number of 1980s adventure films with a heist theme.
Plot[edit]
New York and Florida are the only states where casino boats can operate offshore. Boat owners in South Florida said Ross's ruling gives them some relief.
Lucky (Ward) operates a for-charter sight-seeing boat in the Florida Keys. He keeps company with salty gambling and drinking barroom types. One day a young man, Mac (Jenkins), recently from college shows up and enters into a poker game with Lucky. Mac is proficient at cards which belie his youthful looks. Lucky unable to pay, Mac eventually ends up in a partnership with the young man and the two of them now share Lucky's boat The White Witch.
As time goes on, a political prisoner from Cuba, called Carlos (Julia), lands in Miami. He has been imprisoned by Castro since 1961 and was a DC-3 pilot during the planned Bay of Pigs Invasion. Carlos eventually meets Lucky and Mac and persuades them to use their boat White Witch to take him back to Cuba. Carlos has two reasons to return to Cuba, a lost lady love (Payán) whom he thinks is still waiting for him after twenty years and a crate of gold coins he parachuted from the DC-3 just before he bailed out of the aircraft in 1961. The three end up in Cuba and face a band of rebels led by El Gato (Fargas).
Cast[edit]
- Raul Julia - Carlos Jayne
- Fred Ward - Lucky Boone
- Daniel Jenkins - Mac
- Jaime Sánchez - Innocente
- Victor Argo - Pablo Cheruka
- Ilka Tanya Payán - Carmen
- Antonio Fargas - El Gato Negro
- Jesse Corti - Guido
- Raúl Dávila - Esteban
- Ed Grady - Lenny
See also[edit]
- High Risk (1981)
- Green Ice (1981)
- Romancing the Stone (1984)
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Florida Straits on IMDb
- synopsis at AllMovie
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Another day out on the water and then under the water.
Diving in the Atlantic, off Key Largo, has always been one of the Florida Keys’ main tourism attractions.
Since 1978, Spencer Slate has operated one of the best-known diving operations in the northern island chain.
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“Labor Day filling up so it looks like we are going to have a normal Labor Day,” Slate says.
Normal would be real good as the coronavirus pandemic continues, the Keys have reopened after shutting down to prevent the spread of the virus. That was not a good time for dive boat operators much less anyone else.
“People were dying to get out and loving it,” adds Slate. “I would say half the calls are about what COVID rules are in the Keys and what we are doing to sterilize our gear. It’s on everybody’s mind.”
Slate’s business nowadays is even more dependent on what is called “the drive market.” People driving to the Keys, especially from nearby states and of course Florida.
In extreme cases, customers driving all the way from Boston.
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“They did not want to fly. I am thinking flying is getting pretty safe but still they didn’t want to mingle around the airport and drove down,” said Slate.
Slate took advantage of the Payroll Protection Plan. A number of people hunkered in the Keys during the pandemic wanted to dive, and along with locals kept the dive boats chugging out to the reefs but with the Keys opened with restrictions, and out-of-towners are returning.
“We are getting booking from people who were going to the Caymans to Belize, Galapagos, to the Bahamas and they are coming here because they feel it is safer and easier to get to and they don’t have to go through a two-week quarantine,” said Slate.
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Slate hopes to salvage what is left of the summer dive season, hoping there is not another spike in coronavirus cases.