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. Featuring personal testimony, interviews, and a news archive, this documentary recounts Elián's remarkable rescue on Thanksgiving Day in 1999, after his mother and 10 others fleeing Cuba perished at sea, and the custody battle between the boy's Cuban father and his Miami-based relatives.
Elián has generally received positive reviews.
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By Frank Scheck (1,741) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 21 May 2017
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By Robert Abele (1,309) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 31 May 2017
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Elián was released in 2017 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 9 reviews, giving Elián (2017) an average rating of 67%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 100%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 66%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Elián a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 67%, Elián is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2017, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2017 with similar scores include films like The Foreigner, To the Bone and Home.
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