Hello chriso_312,
Below you will find the results of my research regarding movies about or in Miami.
Scarface (1983)
?In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug empire
while succumbing to greed.?
Starring:
Al Pacino
Steven Bauer
Michelle Pfeiffer
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/
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The Specialist (1994)
?The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help
a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld.?
Starring:
Sylvester Stallone
Sharon Stone
James Woods
Rod Steiger
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111255/
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There's Something About Mary (1998)
Starring:
Cameron Diaz
Matt Dillon
Ben Stiller
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129387/
?Ted hires Pat Healy (Matt Dillon) to locate Mary, and the creepy
private investigator finds her in Miami, where she lives with her
tan-shriveled roommate Magda (Lin Shaye). After Pat develops a
stalker-style fixation on the lovely, unattached Mary, he lies to Ted,
telling him that she's now an overweight mother confined to a
wheelchair.?
New York Times
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=163034
?Ted never gets a chance to say goodbye as Mary's family moves to
Miami. Years later, Ted is in therapy realizing that he is still madly
in love with Mary. He hires a private detective named Healy (Matt
Dillon), to track her down, but Healy falls for her and soon moves to
Florida to try and romance her. He tells Ted she is a disabled,
overweight, mail-order bride, but when Ted finds out that isn't true
he and friend Dom (Chris Elliott) head to Miami to locate the
love-of-his-life Mary.?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129387/usercomments
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
?Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot
and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a
man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the
ladies.?
Starring:
Jim Carrey
Courteney Cox
Sean Young
IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109040/plotsummary
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The Birdcage (1996)
?A worthwhile remake of the French film, "Le Cage Aux Folles" (1978)
where Robin Williams and Broadway star Nathan Lane star as the two
lovers. Armand (Williams) runs the Birdcage, a lush and colorfully
bright drag club that's located in Miami's South Beach while Albert
(Lane) is Starina, the club's star entertainer who can be hard to get
along with off the stage.?
Starring:
Robin Williams
Gene Hackman
Nathan Lane
Dianne Wiest
Calista Flockhart
Hank Azaria
IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115685/
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Meet the Fockers (2004)
?Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his
daughter, ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Miami to
Greg's parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker, who are
as different from them as can be.?
Cast:
Robert De Niro
Ben Stiller
Dustin Hoffman
Barbra Streisand
IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290002/
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The Bellboy (1960)
Starring Jerry Lewis
?Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It is
there that he performs his duties quietly and without a word to
anyone.?
IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053644/maindetails
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Miami Blues (1990)
Starring: Alec Baldwin
?When sociopath Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start
over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave.?
IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100143/
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Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988)
The old captain Lassard, chief of the police academy, goes to Florida
to receive an award.
IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095882/
?Sun, fun and babes in shades. Where else but Miami Beach? Buffoons,
blockheads and party-hearty animals. Who else but the Police Academy
gang? In this fifth funfest, our heroes jet to Miami for a convention
honoring beloved Cmdt. Lassard.?
IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095882/plotsummary
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The Blackout (1997)
Starring:
Matthew Modine
Claudia Schiffer
Dennis Hopper
?Plot Summary: Matty is a film star who is tired of Hollywood life and
moves to Miami, where he makes a proposal to his girlfriend Annie.?
IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118734/
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Band of the Hand (1986)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090693/
?In an attempt of resocialisation, five hopeless juvenile criminals
are sent away from prison into the Everglades for a survival training
under the Indian Joe. When this is successful, they move back to
Miami. However this offends the former illegal inhabitants of their
house, all loyal customers of drug baron Cream. The conflict leads to
armed fights.?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090693/plotsummary
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Big Trouble (2002)
?Plot Outline: The lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to
gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children,
intersect with humorous and dangerous results.?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246464/
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Moon Over Miami (1941)
?Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich
husbands. Much singing and dancing including the number "You Started
Something".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033918/
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South Beach (1992)
"South Beach" is a film noir film about two ex-football players
turned private eyes: Fred Williamson plays Mack Derringer, a smooth
yet sloppy guy who likes to use a big gun to take out the trash; and
Gary Busey is Lenny, Derringer's partner who likes to walk on the wild
side. Together, when not solving cases in Miami, they play golf on the
sunny Florida countryside.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104997/
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2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
?Set in Miami, Officer O'Conner, stripped of his badge, is recruited
to infiltrate the Miami street racing circuit in an effort to redeem
himself.?
IMDb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322259/
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Search criteria:
IMDb: Miami
I hope this is helpful.
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
