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Summary
The story of Elián Gonzalez, a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida Straits, and how the fight for his future changed the course of U.S.-Cuba relations.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+14)
Critics 83Audiences 69GoodWatch 67
Tomatometer100%
Metascore66
IMDb6.9
Audience score69%
Running time
1 h 48 min
Longer than most documentaries, +12 min on the typical 96
typical 96108Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
2017
April 21, 2017
9 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
SpanishMade in
United Kingdom- United States
Directing · 2
- Tim Golden Director, Writer
- Ross McDonnell Director, Director of Photography
Production · 7
- Alex Gibney Executive Producer
- Maiken Baird Executive Producer
- Amy Entelis Executive Producer
- Trevor Birney Producer
- Jenny Kubo Supervising Producer
- Courtney Sexton Supervising Producer
Editing · 2
- Michael J. Palmer Editor
- Hannah Vanderlan Editor
Sound · 4
- McKenzie Stubbert Original Music Composer
- Aaron O'Neill Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Evelio Manfred Gay Salinas Sound Recordist
- Chloe Dalzell Sound Editor
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