Miami Blues (1990)

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When sociopath Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave... (imdb)

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Directed By: George Armitage

Written By: George Armitage, Charles Willeford

Starring: Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charles Napier, Fred Ward, Paul Gleason, Nora Dunn, Obba Babatundé, Martine Beswick, José Pérez, Georgie Cranford, Edward Saxon, Cecilia Pérez-Cervera

Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Crime

Country: USA

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Miami Blues belongs to 14 collections

1. boobs (collaborative: moderated by Pickpocket - 51 stars)

2. Psychotronic Film and Video Guides (collaborative: moderated by Gregzilla - 40 stars)

3. Onion AV Club: The New Cult Canon (collaborative: moderated by theficionado - 28 stars)

4. Edgar Wright 1000 Favorite Movies (Aug 2016) (collaborative: moderated by Aron Ericson - 17 stars)

5. Films available in HD (collaborative: moderated by kubricksucks - 13 stars)

6. 1,000 Noir Films: They Shot Dark Pictures, Didn't They? (collaborative: moderated by lisa- - 9 stars)

7. Filmsite.org - Sex in the Movies, An Illustrated History (collaborative: moderated by afx237vi - 5 stars)

8. Classic CHUD: 100 Movies That Deserve More Love (collaborative: moderated by tinysausage - 5 stars)

9. Unstable Love (collaborative: moderated by saudade - 4 stars)

10. Dan Sallitt "red" films (public: Scottathon - 3 stars)

11. Miami (collaborative: moderated by kangadoodoo)

12. Welcome to the Basement (public: donkeyjelly)

13. Edgar Wright's 1000 Favorite Movies (public: coldesser)

14. Edgar 256 (public: caffe)

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Date	User	Rating
May 14, 2022	Malcym	6 _55th
Watched in tribute to Fred Ward (1942-2022). Entertaining jet-black comedy thriller boasts three excellent performances by Ward, Baldwin and Leigh although it sometimes seems uncertain of its tone and - a sign of its times - is bogged down by an overbearing, dated score. It makes good use of its South Florida locations. The recurring business involving fingers made me squirm.
Jun 22, 2021	MadMan	90 _67th
Baldwin vs Ward is very entertaining. Also JJL is adorable in this flick.
Jul 15, 2020	WWallce4prez	88 _92nd
Essentially genre-less, Miami Blues is both eagerly romantic, violent, and very funny. True Romance but with less restraint. From Fred Ward's teeth to Baldwin's brazen disregard to normal human behavior, the movie is a ton of fun. Totally underrated and forgotten. I'm pretty sure rewatches is going to send this up and up in my book.
Jul 06, 2020	capodelnulla	50 _22nd
baldwin'in çekerken en çok eğlendiği filmse hiç şaşırtıcı olmaz. tuhaf damarı bir yere kadar eğlenceli olsa da o tarzı destekleyen bir plot yok ortada.
Aug 16, 2019	metalhank	63 _57th
I seem to remember this being good quirky fun, it's been a helluva long time though so added to re-watch list.
Jan 24, 2018	Luna6ix	40 _3rd
I read the book first, was pretty unimpressed with Willeford, who was supposedly one of the great hardboiled writers out there. I'm something of a connoisseur of hardboiled writing too, so, I'd like to say that the quality of this movie is the result of an egregious bastardization of the book, but that's not true. The book wasn't good, the movie is worse. Baldwin doesn't fit, Ward is fine, but the major pitfall here is that Moseley is made out to be a minor character, just like the book.
Sep 23, 2017	McJohnson	23 _2nd
They must have been snorting some great cocaine when they made this, to think that it was any good at all. Horrendous directing, shit acting from everyone but Jason Leigh, non-existent story arc. For me it doesn't work as a comedy, nor as a thriller.
Aug 25, 2017	fra paolo	46 _47th
Despite a lot of good parts, I got a sense of subtraction by addition, as afterwards the film seemed thin gruel. The emotional balance of the film rests on Baldwin's fulfillment of the dreams of Leigh, and the tension between his life of crime (and the means by which he succeeds). These scenes are quite short in comparison with the set-up, and we never quite manage to get the scales level before the contradictions compel the denouement.
Jul 10, 2017	AFlickering	6 _87th
a film that can be summed up by a passage in which jennifer jason leigh obliviously delivers a line of such tragedy it's hard not to tear up, then throws a frisbee to the guy whose teeth her fiancé stole and he grins and offers a frisbee salute.
Jun 09, 2016	deep_green	20 _5th
Something of a mess that remains mildly amusing because of the unhinged characters, all of which seem at least seriously neurotic. But hey, I guess that's life. Kind of resembles an 80's cop thriller if it had been directed by Tom Green sans whatever the fuck Green smokes.
Jun 07, 2016	Moribunny	70 _75th
Surprisingly good. It's light-hearted eighties-style action fare, but has a riveting cast, a lot of those little detail touches that make a difference, and avoids the expected cheap thriller tropes at every turn.
Nov 07, 2013	Clark Nova	98 _88th
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Jul 09, 2013	tinysausage	77 _72nd
Taut Miami noir with Baldwin on fire as the predatory Junior, the mobile camera matching his restless prowling. Throw in a terrific Jason Leigh and a quirky Fred Ward as the toothless cop on his trail, and you've got a little gem. Some nice black humour too.
Feb 19, 2012	JohnSandwich	75 _74th
lol bizarre and mostly awesome
May 03, 2010	EastonD	78 _61st
Fred Ward is the man yo. This is the Alec I like, not the funny fat man he is today.
Jul 31, 2009	freqflyer	85 _83rd
Classic movie! Very funny, and very original.
May 25, 2009	DavidKahane	53 _34th
It's interesting to see some of the basic noir conventions played out in one of the sunniest places imaginable. It's the sort of crunchy lunacy that made a career for Carl Hiaasen. Armitage's movie is peppered with amusing passages, but it's ultimately hampered by a pedestrian visual approach and middling performances by Alec Baldwin (still in the pretty boy coasting era of his career) and Fred Ward.
Aug 27, 2008	miss jesus	84 _85th
Excellent. Baldwin is hard to like in this, but impossible to hate, too. As he does one horrible thing after another, you can still see the part of him that wants to change. Just like you can see that part of Leigh believes in him, and part knows better, and is just wrecked by him. Ward is doing his regular Ward-y thing, and it's as enjoyable as always. Really atmospheric film with well-chosen locations and great sets. Would have scored it higher, but it made me too sad.
Jan 04, 2008	saucyjack	70 _49th
Pretty good black comedy foreshadowed Armitage's pitch-black Grosse Pointe Blank.
Mar 22, 2007	TheDiceman	50 _35th
Not bad.

Average Percentile 51.93% from 268 Ratings