Papa Hemingway In Cuba

Name: Papa Hemingway In Cuba
Released: 2016-4-29
Cast: Giovanni Ribisi, Joely Richardson, Minka Kelly, Adrian Sparks

R
1h 50m
2016

11%

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In 1959, Miami journalist and aspiring writer Ed Myers travels to Havana to meet his idol Ernest Hemingway. An unexpected friendship develops as the legendary author mentors young Myers in deep-sea fishing, drinking — and finding his literary voice — while the Cuban Revolution ignites around them. Papa: Hemingway in Cuba offers an extraordinary glimpse into the life of a uniquely American icon.

Director:

Bob Yari

Cast:

Giovanni Ribisi, Joely Richardson, Minka Kelly, Adrian Sparks

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

11%

Critics Consensus: A man can be destroyed but not defeated, although the desultory Papa: Hemingway in Cuba makes one feel as if both can be accomplished by watching a single film.

Reviews

World Socialist Web Site

David Walsh

If the viewer were to base him- or herself on the Hemingway represented in Yari's Papa ... he or she would likely never open a single volume of Hemingway's writing.

We never get a sense of what we're supposed to gain here.

The actors do their best, but the plodding, unimaginative direction reduces the film to a dull docu-drama,

May 7, 2019

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