Miami Blues (1990) on Netflix
Junior leaves prison and restarts his criminal life in Miami. He takes up with Susie Waggoner, a college student who works as a prostitute. Sgt. Hoke Moseley investigates an airport killing.
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Plot summary
Frederick J. Frenger Jr., a self-described thief who prefers to be called Junior, leaves a California prison and tries to build a new life in Miami. At the airport he takes a stranger's luggage and kills a Hare Krishna. He checks into a hotel and meets Susie Waggoner, a part-time prostitute studying at a community college. The two become a couple and move into a house together, and Susie knows nothing about his crimes. Junior breaks into a nearby apartment and takes a handgun, a coin collection and pork chops. The airport killing brings Sgt. Hoke Moseley, a veteran detective, into the investigation.
Cast
- Cecilia Pérez-Cerveraas Stewardess
- Georgie Cranfordas Little Boy at Miami Airprt
- Matt Ingersollas Mourning Hare Krishna
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Miami Blues (1990)
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- Gene Hackman was set to play Hoke, with Fred Ward as Junior. When Hackman dropped out, Alec Baldwin came in to read for the part.
- George Armitage says the script omitted a plot point of the novel: the Hare Krishna killed by Fred was Susie's brother. He found that kind of serendipity bothersome, said it took 10 or 15 pages to explain, and cut it for economy.
SPOILER
A New Jersey preview backfired: the audience was horrified when Junior died and practically rioted when Alec Baldwin's character was killed. Baldwin had wanted to play the part a little broader, and though they didn't agree on set, he called the director years later to say he was glad he'd been made to do it.- Between setups at Junior and Susie's house, Alec Baldwin got behind the camera and did about a five-minute impression of Tak Fujimoto, then moved to the electrical department for spot-on impressions of all of those guys, leaving everyone awestruck.
- Rain repeatedly shut down shooting on Miami Blues, because the drumming on the roof was too loud to record, so the cast and crew had to wait it out.
