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  Miami Vice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Miami Vice was a popular television series (five seasons on NBC from 1984-1989) starring Don Johnson (James "Sonny" Crockett) and Philip Michael Thomas (Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs) as two Miami police detectives working undercover.
Miami Vice was noted for its innovative use of music, particularly countless pop and rock hits of the 1980s and the distinctive, synthesized instrumental music of Jan Hammer.
Miami Vice was one of the best-known shows of the 1980s, and it had a huge impact on the decade's popular fashions as well as setting the tone for further evolution of police drama.
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 Miami Vice
Miami Vice was less about the solving of mysteries then it was a contemporary morality play.
Moreover, one of the most striking aspects of Miami Vice was its visual style, which borrowed heavily from the film noir.
Miami Vice (along with Hill Street Blues and Cagney and Lacey) was one of the ground breaking police programs of the 1980s.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/M/htmlM/miamivice/miamivice.htm   (880 words)

  
 Miami Vice (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Miami Vice is a 2006 American feature film adaptation of the 1980s TV series of the same name, written, produced, and directed by Michael Mann, the TV show's executive producer.
Detectives James 'Sonny' Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx), along with their partners Trudy Joplin (Naomie Harris), Larry Zito (Justin Theroux), and Gina Calabrese (Elizabeth Rodriguez), are mingling in the club, obviously waiting for something to happen or someone to arrive.
Miami Vice holds a 48-percent rotten rating at Rotten Tomatoes and a 6.1-rating at IMDB with 9,147 votes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miami_Vice_(film)   (4894 words)

  
 Miami Vice (2006): Reviews
Miami Vice is the last of the predicted summer blockbusters, and it delivers a reasonable amount of popcorn excitement.
Miami Vice, the movie, is an atmospheric muddle, as gorgeous and unintelligible as raven-haired stunner Gong Li.
Perhaps vice isn't what it used to be, or maybe Crockett and Tubbs just aren't all that interesting when removed from their appropriate time slot, but this may well be the dreariest and most monochromatic time you'll have at the movies all summer.
www.metacritic.com /film/titles/miamivice   (1364 words)

  
 Miami Vice
Miami Vice is beautifully shot but the lead characters lack the charisma of their TV series counterparts, and the underdeveloped story is well below the standards of Michael Mann's better films.
Miami Vice exudes the kind of gritty life we expect, so much so that you might argue that neither Crockett nor Tubbs deserves to be called a main character; Mann reserves that role for crime itself.
Miami Vice, as entertaining as some of it is, is so cool that it's almost too cool.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/miami_vice   (1326 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Miami Vice - Series 1: DVD: Don Johnson,Philip Michael Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
MIAMI VICE made a short-lived star out of Don Johnson, who eventually won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Sonny, and supporting star Edward James Olmos (as a police captain) won both the Golden Globe and an Emmy.
MIAMI VICE is a fascinating cultural document of the 1980s as well as an effective and exciting cop show.
I know Miami vice has come out on DVD before but all that was released was vol1 with the pilot and golden triangle parts 1 and 2 which by the way is a very good two part episode and volume 2.
www.amazon.co.uk /Miami-Vice-1-Don-Johnson/dp/B0007VXZAE   (1001 words)

  
 AlterNet: Miami Vice
MIAMI -- Protestors seemed to skirmish with heavily armored Miami police outside the Riande Hotel Thursday morning, but nothing is at it seems this week.
Miami and U.S. police officials were there as observers, but chose not to repeat the non-violent peacekeeping example of Cancun.
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz called the police presence "a model for homeland defense." Two weeks ago, Miami chief John Timoney was quoted as saying his strategy would be "a failure" if tear gas was used.
www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=17234   (1511 words)

  
 Classic TV Shows - Miami Vice
Miami Vice was unique in the use of music.
Vice had bad guys who were really, really bad and more than a few good guys gone bad.
Today when you see that C.S.I. uses different visual styles for their shows (warms hues for Miami and bluish cool ones for New York) or when rock music is a component of many shows, all that is because Miami Vice came first.
www.fiftiesweb.com /tv/miami-vice.htm   (635 words)

  
 Miami Vice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Miami Vice was just a poster child for this overall downturn in the quality of our society and what it produced.
Miami vice arrived at just the right time in the 80's when our exposure to and obsession with media and pop culture was starting to expand beyond MTV and Euro-style.
Miami Vice changed all that, and remains a huge influence in what we see on TV to this day, in the genre of hour long drama.
www.jumptheshark.com /m/miamivice.htm   (15669 words)

  
 Miami Vice: The Complete Collection
It is not unexpected then, that Miami, a city half way around the world from where Hammer began, would play such a huge part in his legendary career.
Jan Hammer’s work on “Miami Vice”, the television show and its album, had warranted and received accolades from the public, his peers and industry critics alike.
Yet while his overwhelming commercial success, his contribution to the Miami Vice phenomenon and its lasting imprint on the industry are indisputable, Hammer might never have dreamed of producing this definitive collection of his work were it not for the volume of fan requests which come his way even today via his web site.
www.miamivicecd.com   (859 words)

  
 Miami Vice — Miami Vice DVD - Miami Vice Season 2
Miami Vice Stubble-faced detective Sonny Crockett lived in a sailboat guarded by his alligator Elvis.
Miami Vice detective RicardoTubbs was a fl New York cop looking for his brother's killer.
Miami Vice influenced men's fashions toward Italo-casual and interior decor toward the Memphis look.
www.miamivicedvd.com   (148 words)

  
 Gamers Europe » PC » Review » Miami Vice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Thus each mission in Miami Vice is a series of gunfights against identikit enemies, who often seem to appear from nowhere and begin shooting you in the back.
Frankly, the only time you're going to die in Miami Vice is if you're shot in the face whilst struggling with the auto aim, or killed by gunners that you can't see because of the hopeless camera.
Miami Vice involved the double team of Crockett and Tubbs, remember, so Miami Vice the game gives you the option to switch between the two at will, whilst the other follows you around laying down covering fire.
www.gamerseurope.com /articles/641   (1674 words)

  
 Miami Vice (2006) - Starring Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomi Harris, Ciaran Hinds, Elizabeth Rodriguez, John ...
Miami Vice begins as Crockett and Tubbs learn that a high-level leak has led to the slaughter of two federal agents and the murder of an informant friend's family.
Completing the core cast in Miami Vice are New York actor John Ortiz (Narc, Carlito's Way) as the calculating drug runner José Yero and Ciaran Hinds as FBI Special Agent Fujima-the man who reluctantly allows Crockett and Tubbs to penetrate further into the drug underground after their friends are killed.
Vice relishes the rumbling thunder and sheet lightning that warn of approaching hurricanes as well the explosions of real gunfire and the sick, thick impact of bullets.
madeinatlantis.com /movies_central/2006/miamivice.htm   (6357 words)

  
 Miami Vice TV Show - Miami Vice Television Show - TV.com
More Pictures Miami Vice was one of the most innovative and powerful TV series of all time.
Focusing on the Miami Metro-Dade Police "Vice" Department and it's continued battle against the illicit drug, prostitution, and firearms crime underworld of the city of Miami.
When former fashion model Maddie Hayes goes broke and finds that one of her few remaining assets is ownership of the Blue Moon Detective Agency, she is tempted to liquidate it until she meets the...
www.tv.com /miami-vice/show/544/summary.html   (481 words)

  
 GameSpy: Miami Vice
Miami Vice was one of the most popular TV series of the '80s,taking millions of viewers on under-cover missions through the streets of Miami with characters like the cool Sonny Crockett, his trustworthy partner Ricardo Tubbs and the demanding Lieutenant Martin Castillo.
The Miami street scene, the atmosphere of the series and the thrilling adventures of the detectives give an ultimate setting for sensational gameplay.
Miami Vice: The Game gets UK release date (08/20/04) - The 80's are back with Davilex's Miami Vice: The Game, coming this November.
xbox.gamespy.com /xbox/miami-vice   (238 words)

  
 Miami Vice DVD
Miami Vice was the first to set a visual style for a whole series, to have a unique color palette.
The Vibe of Vice, Building the Perfect Vice, The Style of Vice, The Music of Vice, Miami After Vice.
Especially since they are being replaced in the upcoming Miami Vice movie, much will be made of this.
www.fiftiesweb.com /tv/miami-vice-dvd.html   (477 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Miami Vice: Season One: DVD: Miami Vice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Miami Vice was a TV watershed, and this DVD set does it full justice.
I had read not that long ago 'Vice's DVD debut would be long in coming due in part to the issue of music licensing that would have to be paid out.
They recently brought back Miami Vice on TV and honestly it is still as good as it was back then.
www.amazon.ca /Miami-Vice-Season-One/dp/B00005JLEY   (1722 words)

  
 Miami Vice trivia
Miami Vice was the number one movie at the box office this weekend beating out Pirates of the Caribbean which has been number one for the past 3 weeks already.
The "Miami Vice" soundtrack LP went to number one and stayed there for 11 weeks, making it the most successful TV soundtrack of all time.
Two more soundtracks from Miami Vice would also be released, and Don Johnson would go on to record a very successful album featuring the hit "Heartbeat".
www.tvcrazy.net /tvclassics/americantv/vice.htm   (957 words)

  
 Living in Vice [ The Miami Vice Fanlisting ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Miami Vice was a TV show that ran from 16/09/1984 to 25/01/1990 in USA and that had shown around the world several times since.
It cronicled the lives and cases of the Miami Vice unit, specially of its best detectives, Sonny Crockett and his partner Ricardo Tubbs.
Living in Vice is Thefanlistings.org approved fanlisting for Miami Vice, whose goal is to unite all the Miami Vice fans around the world.
www.silentwings.net /vice   (157 words)

  
 Miami Vice Chronicles
You are about to enter a world where the sexy, sultry Miami scenery, and the heat of the music that defined the 1980s quite possibly forever changed the face of primetime television.
The 20th Anniversary Miami Vice Convention was a smash.
Jan Hammer announced the upcoming release of a "Best of Miami Vice" CD (not yet available, according to his website), and many supporting cast and crew showed up.
www.wildhorse.com /MiamiVice   (819 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Miami Vice - Season One: DVD: Miami Vice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The crime series, "Miami Vice" not only spawned a revolutionary change in men's apparel (white linen jackets, t-shirts, no socks) but forever altered the appearance of the typical crime series on television with a gritty and uncomfortable realism that has now become the norm.
Someone once said "Miami Vice was like watching a variation of Brian DePalma's "Scarface" every week." And it is easy to make that comparison with its emphasis on drug runners, drug kingpins and narcotics.
While "Miami Vice" may not have always been the most realistic crime drama on TV (For example, how many cops do you know drive a Ferrari Daytona as their pursuit vehicle?), it was an aborbing, tense, riveting, edge-of-your-seat weekly drama that defined the 80's.
www.amazon.com /Miami-Vice-Season-One/dp/B00005JLEY   (2106 words)

  
 Reviews: Miami Vice - Christianity Today Movies
The vice squad's story about trust and teamwork becomes secondary to the flashier story of a man and a woman who confuse lust, loneliness, and longing with love.
Miami Vice earns its R-rating with graphic, bloody violence; scenes of a sexual nature that include fleeting glimpses of nudity; and profanity.
Now, in Michael Mann's Miami Vice, Farrell plays the same kind of character: brave, burdened, and loyal to his superiors as he infiltrates an international drug operation and falls for the girlfriend of the malevolent kingpin.
www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/2006/miamivice.html   (2347 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Miami Vice: Season Two: DVD: Don Johnson,Phillip Michael Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Miami Vice instantly established itself as an oasis for character actors, many at the beginning of their careers.
Most of Miami Vice's buzz-generating episodes were in season 1, but season 2 offers several series benchmarks.
Miami Vice stylishly subverted TV cop drama convention, but despite one too many downbeat endings that freeze on a devastated Crockett, it remains exhilarating to re-visit.
www.amazon.ca /Miami-Vice-Season-Don-Johnson/dp/B000BKVKSA   (1154 words)

  
 Premiere Magazine - Miami Vice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mann's latest picture, Miami Vice, is unfortunately plagued by similar problems, although there are individual sequences here than rank among the best work he's ever done.
Based on the iconic '80s TV series, Miami Vice reintroduces us to Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx), undercover detectives for Miami-Dade PD. We first glimpse the duo in the middle of a stakeout, monitoring a local gangster who runs a prostitution ring.
He certainly puts on a show for the audience, staging two stellar set pieces (a police raid on a trailer park, as well as the climactic shoot-out in a deserted shipping yard) and repeatedly demonstrating the merits of the latest digital camera technology.
www.premiere.com /article.asp?section_id=2&article_id=2985   (877 words)

  
 Miami Vice - ComingSoon.net Film Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one-especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.
"Miami Vice," as a large-scale feature film, liberates what is adult, dangerous and alluring about working deeply undercover…especially when Crockett and Tubbs go to where their badges don't count…
"Miami Vice" stars Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris and Ciarán Hinds and is written and directed by Michael Mann, who also produces along with Pieter Jan Brugge; Anthony Yerkovich serves as executive producer.
www.comingsoon.net /films.php?id=8238   (341 words)

  
 Miami Vice (2006)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Plot Outline: Based on the 1980's TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.
Michael Mann's 2006 cinematic update of the 80s-television show "Miami Vice" is gritty, violent, and nothing like the television show it is updating.
But, what makes "Miami Vice" entertaining are its remarkable and impressive visuals.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0430357   (517 words)

  
 Miami Vice - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The pulse and rhythm of a glamorous resort city was set against the seamy side of the drug underworld in this action series, which made use of rock music and music video in a manner previously unprecedented on TV.
Sonny Crockett was a rough Miami vice detective who lived on a sailboat called St.
They were an unlikely - but very effective - team, working undercover on the upscale Gold Coast and the seedy alleyways that made Miami a city of contrasts.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/cops/miamivice.htm   (448 words)

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