Miami Blues

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Miami Blues

R

1990

1h 39m

Comedy

Mystery & Thriller

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After Junior (Alec Baldwin) 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 (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective (Fred Ward). Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.

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Critics Consensus

Laced with hard-boiled thrills and pitch-black comedy, Miami Blues delivers a disarmingly off-kilter crime caper.

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Anton Bitel

Little White Lies

Feb 6, 2023

Armitage has crafted a sunlit neo-noir rooted in quirky character and darkly comic encounters, as two very different men try on each other’s personas for size, and the woman caught between them must also decide between a path of virtue or vice.

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Budd Wilkins

Slant Magazine

Jul 27, 2022

George Armitage’s captivatingly eccentric neo-noir is assisted by three magnetic leads and a healthy dose of black comedy.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

May 24, 2022

A reminder that Hollywood isn’t really dead...

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Joe Leydon

The Moving Picture Show

Apr 12, 2026

This is one sneaky, shifty movie, with quicksilver shifts in mood and a fearless penchant for merging brutality and hilarity, sometimes within a single scene.

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Nov 1, 2022

If it's missing heart, it's got guts to spare. [Full review in Spanish]

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Aug 7, 2022

2.5/4

There are many offbeat ideas in a movie that would be weightless without them.

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Carlos I

@carlosFibarra Sep 14, 2024

Maybe I have to watch this again, with the way it seems to be reviewed... It just didn't connect with me. It's a decently done neo-noir, but Baldwin was soo unlikeable in it, that I had a hard time getting engaged. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood at the time...

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Jelisije J

@jjosifovic Jul 10, 2024

Such an unforgettable film with Alec Baldwin playing one of the more unstable characters that you will ever see in film.

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MrAnjinn P

@RT02263244 Jul 3, 2024

Definitely a classic Alec Baldwin film. Good script writing!

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Steve D

@RT35616104 Jan 29, 2024

The cast makes more of it than it deserves.

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Alec B

@Alec97 Dec 14, 2023

Baldwin's unhinged performance is the best thing about this movie. Such crazed energy from a villain is rare in these types of thrillers.

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Jack O

@RT29143273 Jun 19, 2023

I don't need to say anything about this. I think this is a dark comedy.... I don't need to say it because it's a decent movie it wasn't fantastic but it was all right.

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Sgt. Hoke Moseley

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Susie Waggoner

Nora Dunn

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Charles Napier

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Synopsis

After Junior (Alec Baldwin) 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 (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective (Fred Ward). Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.

Director: George Armitage
Producer: Jonathan Demme, Gary Goetzman
Screenwriter: Charles Willeford, George Armitage
Distributor: Orion Pictures
Production Co: Tristes Tropiques
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 20, 1990, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 30, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $8.8M
Runtime: 1h 39m
Sound Mix: Dolby, Surround
Aspect Ratio: 35mm

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