Miami Blues( 1990)

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Real badge. Real gun. Fake cop.

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After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds Susie, a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective. Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.

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Fred Ward
Sergeant Hoke Moseley
Alec Baldwin
Frederick J. Frenger Jr.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Susie Waggoner
Nora Dunn
Ellita Sanchez
Charles Napier
Sergeant Bill Henderson
Shirley Stoler
Edie Wulgemuth
Bobo Lewis
Edna Damrosch
Obba Babatundé
Blink Willie
José Pérez
Pablo
Paul Gleason
Sergeant Frank Lackley
Cecilia Pérez-Cervera
Stewardess
Georgie Cranford
Little Boy
Edward Saxon
Krishna Ravindra
Matt Ingersoll
Mourning Hare Krishna
Jack G. Spirtos
Pickpocket Victim
Raphael Rey Gomez
Pickpocket
Tony Paris
Pickpocket's Accomplice
Wendy Thorlakson
Toy Store Cashier
William Taylor Anderson Jr.
Crack Dealer
Gary Goetzman
Hotel Desk Clerk
Martine Beswick
Noira
Kenneth Utt
Krishna Ramba
Kerrie Clark
Hooker
Maureen Fitzgibbon
Big Fish Waitress
Steve Geng
Big Fish Robber
Tony Tracy
Musclehead
Buddy Joe Hooker
Shorty
Roy Datz
Julio
Julie Caitlin Brown
Purse Snatch Victim
Marc Mercury
Purse Snatcher
Herb Goldstein
Eddie Cohen
Vic Hunter
Bookie
Gary Klar
Head Bookie
Lou Garr
Convenience Store Clerk
Patrick Cherry
Convenience Store Robber
Nancy Duerr
Newswoman
Lisa Bell
Sausage Girl
Edward Knott III
Supermarket Stud
Joe Hess
Pedro
Carmen López
Woman in Sports Car
Brent Armitage
Carjacked Dealer (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Thu Sep 25 2014

Miami Blues is directed by George Armitage who also adapts the screenplay from the novel of the same name written by Charles Willeford. It stars Alec Baldwin, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Charles Napier. Music is by Gary Chang and cinematography by Tak Fujimoto. Ex-con Frederick Frenger Jr. (Baldwin) lands in Miami and quickly continues his criminal ways. Hooking up with gullible prostitute Susie Waggoner (Leigh), Frenger, by now under suspicion for the killing of a Hare Krishna man at Miami airport, steals the identity of the policeman investigating him and ups his crime spree... ...