Miami Blues (1990)
Directed by George Armitage
After Junior 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, a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective. Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.
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I’m not sure it would have ever been great, unless they brought in a guy like George Armitage, whose Miami Blues is, in many ways, the indie version of this film.
1990's Miami Blues was a quirky crime thriller packed with eccentric characters and rat-tat-tat dialogue, and this follow-up operates in much the same manner.
1990's Miami Blues was a quirky crime thriller packed with eccentric characters and rat-tat-tat dialogue, and this follow-up operates in much the same manner.
Grosse Pointe Blank (the title echoes John Boorman's 1967 hitman thriller Point Blank, but Lee Marvin didn't have Jeremy Piven as a high school buddy), directed at a trust-smart-viewers pace by George Armitage (Miami Blues), is buoyed aloft in its warped universe of as-seen-on-TV violence and late-Gen-X irony with an unusually keen-witted script by novice screenwriters Steve Pink, D.V. DeVincentis, Tom Jankiewicz, and John Cusack.
And Armitage (Miami Blues, The Big Bounce ) is especially good at staging exciting action sequences.
The story of a professional assassin who returns home to an affluent Detroit suburb for his 10-year high school reunion is like Armitage's offbeat cult hit "Miami Blues," which also was an odd and violent comedy.
Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Minnie Driver, and Joan and John Cusack star in this 1997 comedy directed by George Armitage (Miami Blues), about a hit man who returns home for a high school reunion.
Grosse Pointe Blank, directed by George Armitage (Miami Blues), has an audacious edge, but, at times, the film's daring actually works against its success.
It can’t be forgotten that Jennifer Jason Leigh in such films as Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle , Kansas City , Georgia , Rush , Last Exit to Brooklyn , and Miami Blues uncannily defined selfless expression.