Miami, Florida

Miami is a major city located in the southeast corner of the U.S. state of Florida. Miami and the surrounding metropolitan area sits between the Miami River, Biscayne Bay, the Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the second largest city in Florida and the county seat (and largest city) of Miami-Dade County. It is also the largest city in the South Florida metropolitan area, which is comprised of Miami-Dade County, Broward County, and Palm Beach County making up the largest metropolitan area in the Southeastern United States.

Miami in television and film

The Miami International Film Festival is a week-long event held each February.

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The video game ' takes place in a fictional city inspired by Miami, including some of the same architecture and geography. There were also people and gangsters in the game who speak Haitian Creole and Spanish.

Related Topics:
Fictional city - Haitian Creole - Spanish

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Miami is a center for Latin television and film production. As a result, many Spanish-language programs are filmed in the many television production studios, predominantly in Hialeah and South Miami. This includes gameshows, variety shows, news programs, and telenovelas. The most famous are the Saturday night variety show Sábado Gigante and the daytime talk show Christina.

Related Topics:
Telenovelas - Sábado Gigante - Christina

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Various movies have been filmed or take place in Miami. They include:

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• 2 Fast 2 Furious
• '
• Ali
• All About the Benjamins
• Any Given Sunday
• Bad Boys
• Big Trouble
• Black Sunday
• The Birdcage
• '
• Dave's World
• Deep Throat
• Empty Nest
• Flipper
• The Golden Girls
• Good Morning, Miami
• The Jackie Gleason Show (1960s incarnation)
• Making Mr. Right
• Miami Rhapsody
• Miami Vice
• Nip/Tuck
• Out Of Time
• Porky's
• Red Eye
• '
• Scarface
• There's Something About Mary