To digress from plot and all other considerations momentarily, let the record show that this film has the sexiest scene in 80s cinema : Mel Gibson's newsman, in mouldy tux, running a roadblock and machine gun fire while Sigourney Weaver's embassy babe is all over him like a rash. Mm-mmm. What Havana should have been, Weir's romantic political drama, set on the eve of Sukarno's fall in Indonesia in 1965, is a highly-charged affair dripping with moral dilemmas, journalistic ethics, tropical atmosphere, civil unrest, and sex, also noteworthy for Linda Hunt's eerie, Oscar-winning portrayal of the half-caste male dwarf photographer, Billy Kwan.