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The film takes maybe a little too long to get to this point, because things really start to cook once Junior impersonates a cop, using Moseley's badge - shaking down pimps for protection money, robbing muggers and keeping the loot for himself, and intervening during crime scenes. Unfortunately, Moseley has underestimated his opponent, who sneak-attacks him and steals his gun, badge, and. In the meanwhile, homicide detective Hoke Moseley (a perfectly disheveled Fred Ward) tracks down Junior to answer for the dead Hare Krishna. He suggests they move into their own place, but does he really think he can start over with Susie or is he just keeping an eye on his next score? He clearly sees the sweet Susie as a mark - especially once she says she has over $10,000 in savings - but the film is a bit ambiguous about whether or not he actually falls for her. Junior is one of those criminal antiheroes who is like a shark, looking for quick scores to get ahead and then looking for the simplest way to move on. She also has a strange accent, which is presumably supposed to be 'Florida white trash,' but comes off much more cartoonish than Leigh's comparable twang in The Hateful Eight years later. Jennifer Jason Leigh is Susie, young and naive and hoping to make enough money from hooking to put a down payment on a Burger World franchise. You're not gonna believe this, but the gal who shows up at his door is a real sweetie-pie. Without looking back, he heads to his motel and procures the services of a sex worker. You can't keep a good psycho down, and Junior barely touches down at the Miami airport before unintentionally (?) murdering a Hare Krishna (played by co-producer Ed Saxon) by breaking his finger and sending him into shock.

The end product bears distinct fingerprints from all of its creative fathers, but with its Tak Fujimoto cinematography and a brief supporting turn from Charles Napier, Miami Blues often feels like the forgotten conclusion to a Demme offbeat-crime trilogy started with Something Wild and Married to the Mob.īaldwin stars as a live-wire psychopath who goes through many stolen identities during the film's runtime, but mostly sticks with the nickname 'Junior.' Newly arrived in Miami from a California prison, Baldwin plays Junior like a demented surfer with loopy accent to match. It's a Jonathan Demme production that was written and directed by fellow graduate of the Roger Corman 'school,' George Armitage ( Vigilante Force, Grosse Pointe Blank), from the book by Cockfighter novelist Charles Willeford.

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Miami Blues is a dark comic crime movie from 1990 that has consistently flown under the radar, even by the standards of a 'cult classic.' It stars a young Alec Baldwin on the verge of stardom (his turn as Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October hit theaters just before this).

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