But there’s another aspect to Miami Vice‘s influence to consider ... from its audience’s sartorial choices to the future movie stars who had early roles there. And there’s also the ...

Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their respective partners.

Crockett and Tubbs, figuring they're on their way out, are recruited by the government to help a dictator escape from his war-torn country - with double-crosses at every turn.

Ricardo Tubbs is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy, as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three ...

"It's probably still the most difficult movie I've ever made." Not only did Beebe have to contend with making the mothership mobile, "Miami Vice" was playing into the Viper and Sony's weaknesses.