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filmed by George Armitage in 1989, as MIAMI BLUES
Beware of the cop. He bites.
Hoke Moseley never saw him coming: the person who crashed into his squalid little
hidey-hole in the Eldorado Hotel. When his assailant was was done, Hoke's pride
and joy, his dentures, were gone. So were his gun and his badge.
Recovering from the brutal beating, Hoke tried to figure out who had administered
it. The one place he didn't look was at a pair of ill-suited lovers: an ex-con
from California and a simpleminded whore was was studying business management at
Miami-Dade college. |
What the two had in common was a demented interest in haiku, a Hare Krishna who died of a broken finger at a Miami airport, and the acquaintance of a cop without any teeth: the very cop who, as soon as he remembers, will hunt them down. All the way down."If you are looking for a master's insight into the humid decandence of South Florida and its polyglot tribes, nobody does that as well as Mr. Willeford."
-The New York Times Book Review"A nasty crime-comedy that's full of casual violence, outrageous coincidences, and hilariously rude dialogue... Willeford has a marvelously deadpan way with losers on both sides of the law."
- The Kirkus Reviews