Miami Blues (1990)
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Cast
as Frederick J. "Junior" Frenger
as Sgt. Hoke Moseley
as Susie "Pepper" Waggoner
as Ellita Sanchez
as Blink Willie
as Sgt. Bill Henderson
as Edie Wulgemuth
as Sgt. Frank Lackley
as Senor Lerner
as Ravindra
as Ram Ba
as Mourning Hare Krishna
as Hotel Desk Manager
as Big Fish Robber
as Edna Damrosch
as Musclehead
as Shorty
as Julio
as Head Bookie
as Convenience Store Robber
as Newswoman
as Pedro
as Woman in Sports Car
as Little Boy
as Noira
as Eddie Cohen
Critic Reviews for Miami Blues
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (4) | DVD (2)
[George] Armitage gets Willeford's cracked black humor and slightly off-kilter universe ...
What makes Miami Blues so true to its source material is that its "fun," fizzy elements don't completely dispel the roiling bile in its belly.
Baldwin, Ward and Leigh are all perfect in this violent and funny and underseen gem.
One of Baldwin's best performances in a solid black comedy
Hard-boiled and consistently surprising. The entire cast shines.
A terrific crime movie that's both quirky and gritty.
Audience Reviews for Miami Blues
An early Alec Baldwin starring role, and one of his best, this is a very good drama with some elements of a black comedy. Worth seeing for Baldwin's performance at the very least.
Super Reviewer
Early Baldwin which gets an initial knock from me. Quite frankly, I think George Armitage is trying to be Demme and produces something kind of hokey.
Super Reviewer
It's better after a second viewing, but I wished I had liked this a lot more, after Edgar Wright recommended it. Alec Baldwin gives a great performance as a halfcocked psychopath whose love of life is so strong, mixed up and unscrupulous, he can't help but enjoy breaking fingers, busting jaws, playing cops-and-robbers, shooting people on a gut feeling and answering questions about his preferred vegetables with a pause to think out the words "I don't want to talk about that at this time." The rhythm and humanity of the rest of the movie is not good enough to swing around Baldwin's homicidal urges and primitive faith in carpe diem. Demme produced this after directing Something Wild, where Ray Liotta's character was a lot like Alec Baldwin's here, although less wild-eyed and tilting at windfalls. But the earlier movie wasn't so relativistic about whether squares, suckers and slobs were living life more fully than a violent hoodlum, and about whether violence is just the law of nature that we've grown too soft and decadent to understand.
Super Reviewer
Miami Blues Quotes
| Frederick J. "Junior" Frenger: | Everything's turning all orange and silver. |
| Frederick J. "Junior" Frenger: | My problem is that I can have everything and anything that I want, and I don't know what I want. |
| Frederick J. "Junior" Frenger: | This world is a shithole. |
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