Miami Blues

April. 20,1990      R
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

When Fred gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student Susie. Opposing Fred is Sgt Hoke Moseley, a cop who is getting a bit old for the job.

Alec Baldwin as  Frederick J. Frenger Jr.
Jennifer Jason Leigh as  Susie Waggoner
Fred Ward as  Sgt. Hoke Moseley
Edward Saxon as  Krishna Ravindra at Miami Airport
Obba Babatundé as  Blink Willie, Informant
Charles Napier as  Sgt. Bill Henderson
Nora Dunn as  Ellita Sanchez
Paul Gleason as  Sgt. Frank Lackley
José Pérez as  Pablo
Martine Beswick as  Noira

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Reviews

Scanialara
1990/04/20

You won't be disappointed!

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Ensofter
1990/04/21

Overrated and overhyped

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Pacionsbo
1990/04/22

Absolutely Fantastic

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Comwayon
1990/04/23

A Disappointing Continuation

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Mr-Fusion
1990/04/24

It's hard to peg this movie. "Miami Blues" seems to dance along the lines of black comedy, quasi-psycho thriller and pastel noir. And it's offbeat, to say the least; something like this doesn't just come along every day. But the comedic elements didn't work for me; I guess I was just never in sync with its sense of humor.I was much more interested in Jennifer Jason Leigh's character, of the three (Ward and Baldwin are certainly no amateurs). Her character's not bright, but just sweet enough to make you feel bad when she's emotionally abused. It'd be an understatement to say she walks away with this movie.5/10

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billsevenskelton
1990/04/25

Everything about this production works. The casting was brilliant, the dialogue is spot on, and the charming menace of Alec Baldwins character is perfectly disturbing. This film balances between amusing, and unnerving. The musical score adds an emphatic punch. Every actor acquits themselves to perfection.I Never get tired of returning to this little masterpiece. George Armitage did a wonderful turn at refocusing the Charles Willeford pulp novel about Hoke Mosely, and redirected the focus on Junior Frenger. This comes off as a love story gone wrong in the wildest way.. Susan Wagners dream lover, and the the AKA of Herman Gottlieb are not the stuff of possibilities, but of unrelenting, and relentless, sociopathic behavior.This is akin to Billy Wilders ability to blend comedy and tragedy. For me, this is 5 Star stuff.

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gusdanjaq
1990/04/26

Miami blues is a really dark comedy with a lot more to it than whats meets the eye. Alec Baldwin plays a recently released sociopath murderer and thief who manages himself to steel a police badge in Miami. He is joined by a clueless hooker (jennifer Jason)who thinks she has found a decent man to settle down with. Fred Ward plays the officer trying to apprehend Baldwin and get his badge back. Mmiami blues is a great film mostly thanks to the performances by the three main characters. Baldwin does a beautiful job playing this psychopath in a way that you start rooting for him, even though he is murdering, assaulting and steeling from people, you start seeing him as a really sick guy with the mental development of a child. I mean we clearly know his actions are no good at all, but he plays it with a certain quality that even makes you feel sorry for the guy. This ambiguity with which he play the character is what builds the dark humor in this film, because he seems as if he really isn't aware of the possible consequences of his actions. Jennifer Jason beautifully plays the gorgeous and naive prostitute that finds herself falling in love for this criminal. Fred Ward also does a great job playing the cop desperate to recover his badge from Baldwin. This movie greatly shows Baldwin'versatility, and kind of makes me thing of a much lighter version of Henry; Portrait of a serial killer, in the way that both movies deal with leading characters that even thought their morals are highly questionables (they kill and steel just for the kick of it) they are not entirely unlikeable to the audiences witnessing their acts. Great performances, Really Good film.

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aidanwylde
1990/04/27

One of the great scenes in this movie is Jennifer Jason Leigh's defense of her husband's good qualities.I just watched the 1970s BBC drama based on Trollope's 'Palliser' novels, and there's a remarkably similar character: Ferdinand Lopez appears as an 'adventurer' who, in the end, is a victim just like Junior Frenger. Both are a bit psycho, and seduced by their dream of success. Both end in similar ways, and both are defended, at the end, in remarkably similar speeches by their wives. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Willeford read Trollope, or at least watched the television adaptation, whose success helped to put public television on the map.

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