Movie
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1984-12-21
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Mercury Productions, Edgewood Productions, 20th Century Fox, ABC Motion Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Matt Dillon as Jeffrey Willis
- Héctor Elizondo as Arthur Willis
- Molly McCarthy as Ruth Willis
- Martha Gehman as Nikki Willis
- Richard Crenna as Phil Brody
- Jessica Walter as Phyllis Brody
- Carole Davis as Joyce Brody
- Janet Jones as Carla Samson
- Brian McNamara as Steve Dawkins
- Fisher Stevens as Hawk Ganz
- Bronson Pinchot as Alfred Schultz
- Leon as Fortune Smith
Crew
- Garry Marshall - Director
- Garry Marshall - Writer
- Neal Marshall - Writer
- Neal Marshall - Story
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