Action · Crime
Miami Blues
Real badge. Real gun. Fake cop.
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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Top Cast
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
Directed by
George Armitage
Production
Orion PicturesReviews
John Chard
6/109/25/2014
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... This is all about the characterisations, for the story is simple and played as a darkly comic hard boiled cop picture. We are in a stripped back Miami, no gloss here, wherever the psychotic Frenger g
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