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*''[[wikipedia:Carlito's Way|Carlito's Way]]'' - [[Ken Rosenberg]], Tommy Vercetti's lawyer and adviser, looks and acts like Sean Penn's lawyer character from the movie. | *''[[wikipedia:Carlito's Way|Carlito's Way]]'' - [[Ken Rosenberg]], Tommy Vercetti's lawyer and adviser, looks and acts like Sean Penn's lawyer character from the movie. | ||
*''[[wikipedia:To Live and Die in L.A. (film)|To Live and Die in L.A.]]'' - later in the game there is a money counterfeiting scheme based on the movie. A song from the movie's soundtrack ("Dance Hall Days" by Wang Chung) is also included on the in-game radio station. | *''[[wikipedia:To Live and Die in L.A. (film)|To Live and Die in L.A.]]'' - later in the game there is a money counterfeiting scheme based on the movie. A song from the movie's soundtrack ("Dance Hall Days" by Wang Chung) is also included on the in-game radio station. | ||
*''[[wikipedia:Reservoir Dogs|Reservoir Dogs]]'' - [[Mr. Black]] and [[Leo Teal]] (who is referred in-game as Mr. Teal) are a parody of the cult classic film due to their surnames being colours, as are the codenames of each of the robbers in the film. | |||
*''[[wikipedia:Speed (1994 film)|Speed]]'' - In the mission [[Publicity Tour]], a [[The Psycho|murderous fan]] of [[Love Fist]] plants a [[Boomshine]] bomb in the [[Love Fist Limo]] that [[Tommy Vercetti]] and [[Love Fist]] are sitting in. Tommy has to drive around Vice City without dropping the limo's speed, or else the limo will explode. This is a nod to the film Speed, which features an identical scene except with a bus instead of a limo. | |||
*''[[wikipedia:Red Dawn|Red Dawn]]'' - an [[Ammu-Nation]] radio advertisement calling this 1984 movie about a fictional Soviet invasion of the United States a "documentary" is just one example of the game's lampooning of 1980s American paranoia towards communism. | *''[[wikipedia:Red Dawn|Red Dawn]]'' - an [[Ammu-Nation]] radio advertisement calling this 1984 movie about a fictional Soviet invasion of the United States a "documentary" is just one example of the game's lampooning of 1980s American paranoia towards communism. | ||
*[[wikipedia:Village People|Village People]] - a builder, a police officer, a soldier, a firefighter and a biker can be seen dancing on stage in the [[Malibu Club]]. | *[[wikipedia:Village People|Village People]] - a builder, a police officer, a soldier, a firefighter and a biker can be seen dancing on stage in the [[Malibu Club]]. | ||