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The Flamingo Kid

The Flamingo Kid

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 21, 1984

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

User Score

61%

Original Title

The Flamingo Kid

Production Companies

Mercury Productions, Edgewood Productions, 20th Century Fox, ABC Motion Pictures

Director

Garry Marshall

Description

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.