Al Pacino + Malcolm X + Castro walk into a hotel... history gets messy.
Centered on true events when Cuban revolution leader Fidel Castro visited New York City and stayed in Harlem in 1960.
Acting
Al Pacino as CIA fixer Robert Maheu—scenery-chewing guaranteed.
Production
1960 Harlem recreated with sweaty, neon-noir precision.
Writing
True events so wild they barely need dramatizing.
Director
Eif Rivera
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Castro's 1960 Harlem stay was at the Hotel Theresa, where he famously met Malcolm X during his UN visit—no American hotel downtown would host him.
Robert Maheu was a real CIA contractor who later managed the Vegas skim for the mob; his presence here hints at the agency's blurred lines between foreign ops and domestic organized crime.
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