“A legend in his own neighborhood.”
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of the patronage of smooth-talking Phil Brody and is seduced by the ample bikini charms of club member Carla Samson. But thanks to a couple of late-summer hard lessons, the teen eventually realizes that family should always come first.
Garry Marshall
Michael Phillips
Garry Marshall
Neal Marshall
James A. Contner
Curt Sobel
Matt Dillon
Jeffrey Willis
Héctor Elizondo
Arthur Willis
Molly McCarthy
Ruth Willis
Martha Gehman
Nikki Willis
Richard Crenna
Phil Brody
Jessica Walter
Phyllis Brody
Carole Davis
Joyce Brody
Janet Jones
Carla Samson
Brian McNamara
Steve Dawkins
Fisher Stevens
Hawk Ganz
Bronson Pinchot
Alfred Schultz
Leon
Fortune Smith
... and 11 more
Wuchak
***Matt Dillon's summer as a cabana boy at a private beach club on Long Island*** Released in 1984, "The Flamingo Kid" is a coming-of-age beach flick. What occasionally draws me to these types of films is their youthful energy and fun spirit, as well as the oceanic locations and the women. It b...
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Mercury Productions
Edgewood Productions
20th Century Fox