PG-13The Flamingo Kid

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500M
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Play Time: 100 mins
Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Flamingo Kid

Overview:
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.

Status: Released (1984-12-21)
Awards:1 nomination total
BoxOffice:$23,859,382
Screen:Neal Marshall, Garry Marshall
Productions: Mercury Productions, Edgewood Productions, 20th Century Fox, ABC Motion Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
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Wuchak

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***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 ....

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