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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Romance /
Thriller /
Music
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Director:
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George Armitage
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Actors:
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José Pérez,
Cecilia Pérez-Cervera,
Georgie Cranford,
Edward Saxon,
Matt Ingersoll,
Alec Baldwin,
Obba Babatundé,
Fred Ward,
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Charles Napier
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Duration:
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97 min.
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Rating:
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(6.3/10)58
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Plot Summary:
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When Fred Frenger gets not on of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a physical one-man crime upsurge. He in due course meets up with amiable college student/prostitute Susie Waggoner. Opposite Frenger is Sgt Hoke Moseley, a cop who is getting a bit old on the job, especially since the job of cop in 1980's Miami is getting crazier all the time.
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Miami Blues
He might insufficiency the nihilism and deprecatory acclaim of Jim Thompson and the please and whopping sales of Elmore Leonard, but there's plenty to suggest that Charles Willeford is the timbre American felony paragrapher of the brief-contention fighting years. His no-crap trend and misty characters might not appeal to the academic or the airline reader, but his punchy text and tonier storytelling make him a match after those more rich or more renowned. That Willeford is a more infinitesimal numerate than Thompson or Leonard might delineate why so few of his books from been adapted for the big screen. Of course, while Thomson's 'The Retreat' has twice been made into a movie and equal Leonard's least enchanting novels (fundamentally 'Be Self-control') have un...
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