The Flamingo Kid

Dec 21, 1984

1h 40m

★ 6.0

A legend in his own neighborhood.

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Mercury Productions

Edgewood Productions

20th Century Fox

ABC Motion Pictures

The Flamingo Kid Trailers

Cast

Jeffrey Willis

Matt Dillon

Arthur Willis

Héctor Elizondo

Ruth Willis

Molly McCarthy

Nikki Willis

Martha Gehman

Phil Brody

Richard Crenna

Phyllis Brody

Jessica Walter

Joyce Brody

Carole Davis

Carla Samson

Janet Jones

Steve Dawkins

Brian McNamara

Hawk Ganz

Fisher Stevens

Alfred Schultz

Bronson Pinchot

Fortune Smith

Leon

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