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The Flamingo Kid is a comedy film
Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on Humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies....
 directed by Garry Marshall
Garry Marshall

Garry Kent Marshall is an United States actor, director, writer and producer. His credits include creating Happy Days and directing Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, and The Princess Diaries ....
, written by Marshall, Neal Marshall
Neal Marshall

Neal Gregory Marshall is a Canadian speed skater. For the 1994-1995 season he was the winner at Speed Skating World Cup's 1500 m division. In 1997, he took bronze at the World Single Distance Championships for Men in the 1,500 m division....
 and Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman

Robert "Bo" Goldman is an American writer, Broadway theatre playwright and Academy Award winning screenwriter.Goldman is a screenwriter's screenwriter, and one of the most honored in motion picture history....
. It stars Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon

Matthew Raymond Dillon is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe Award-, and BAFTA Award-nominated United States actor. He began acting in the late 1970s, gained fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s, and developed a successful career as a mature actor in the decades following, culminating in an Academy Awards nomination for his performance in th...
, Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna

Richard Donald Heracles Crenna was an United States film, television and radio actor. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles , Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, Rambo , Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid....
, Hector Elizondo
Hector Elizondo

H?ctor Elizondo is a Golden Globes-nominated and Emmy Awards-winning United States actor....
 and Janet Jones
Janet Jones

Janet-Marie Jones is an United States actress, dancer and aerobics instructor. She is married to ice hockey icon Wayne Gretzky.Biography...
. It is a coming-of-age movie about a working class
Working class

Working class is a term used in academic sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe, depending on context and speaker, those employed in specific fields or types of work....
 boy who takes a summer job at a beach resort and learns valuable life lessons.

It was the first movie to receive a PG-13 rating, although it was the third to be released with that rating, after Red Dawn
Red Dawn

Red Dawn is a 1984 in film war film by John Milius about a fictional invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union, Cuba, Nicaragua and other Communist Central American armies, and the resulting guerrilla warfare of a group of American high school students in the town of Calumet, Colorado, Colorado....
 and Dreamscape
Dreamscape (film)

Dreamscape is a 1984 in film science fiction film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by David Loughery, with Chuck Russell and Ruben co-writing....
.

Tagline: A legend in his own neighborhood

Plot
In the summer of 1963, Jeffrey Willis (Matt Dillon) is hired on at upscale Long Island beach resort, The Flamingo.






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The Flamingo Kid is a comedy film
Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on Humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies....
 directed by Garry Marshall
Garry Marshall

Garry Kent Marshall is an United States actor, director, writer and producer. His credits include creating Happy Days and directing Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, and The Princess Diaries ....
, written by Marshall, Neal Marshall
Neal Marshall

Neal Gregory Marshall is a Canadian speed skater. For the 1994-1995 season he was the winner at Speed Skating World Cup's 1500 m division. In 1997, he took bronze at the World Single Distance Championships for Men in the 1,500 m division....
 and Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman

Robert "Bo" Goldman is an American writer, Broadway theatre playwright and Academy Award winning screenwriter.Goldman is a screenwriter's screenwriter, and one of the most honored in motion picture history....
. It stars Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon

Matthew Raymond Dillon is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe Award-, and BAFTA Award-nominated United States actor. He began acting in the late 1970s, gained fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s, and developed a successful career as a mature actor in the decades following, culminating in an Academy Awards nomination for his performance in th...
, Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna

Richard Donald Heracles Crenna was an United States film, television and radio actor. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles , Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, Rambo , Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid....
, Hector Elizondo
Hector Elizondo

H?ctor Elizondo is a Golden Globes-nominated and Emmy Awards-winning United States actor....
 and Janet Jones
Janet Jones

Janet-Marie Jones is an United States actress, dancer and aerobics instructor. She is married to ice hockey icon Wayne Gretzky.Biography...
. It is a coming-of-age movie about a working class
Working class

Working class is a term used in academic sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe, depending on context and speaker, those employed in specific fields or types of work....
 boy who takes a summer job at a beach resort and learns valuable life lessons.

It was the first movie to receive a PG-13 rating, although it was the third to be released with that rating, after Red Dawn
Red Dawn

Red Dawn is a 1984 in film war film by John Milius about a fictional invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union, Cuba, Nicaragua and other Communist Central American armies, and the resulting guerrilla warfare of a group of American high school students in the town of Calumet, Colorado, Colorado....
 and Dreamscape
Dreamscape (film)

Dreamscape is a 1984 in film science fiction film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by David Loughery, with Chuck Russell and Ruben co-writing....
.

Tagline: A legend in his own neighborhood

Plot


In the summer of 1963, Jeffrey Willis (Matt Dillon) is hired on at upscale Long Island beach resort, The Flamingo. Jeffrey is a kid from a middle class Brooklyn family and his father (Elizondo) does not approve of him working at the private club.

His hero and mentor at the resort is the reigning Gin rummy card game
Gin rummy

Gin rummy is a simple and popular two-player card game created by Elwood T. Baker and his son, C. Graham Baker, in 1909. Gin, which evolved from 18th-century Whiskey Poker , was created with the intention of being faster than standard rummy, but not as spontaneous as knock rummy....
 champ, Phil Brody (Crenna).

Cast

  • Matt Dillon
    Matt Dillon

    Matthew Raymond Dillon is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe Award-, and BAFTA Award-nominated United States actor. He began acting in the late 1970s, gained fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s, and developed a successful career as a mature actor in the decades following, culminating in an Academy Awards nomination for his performance in th...
     - Jeffrey Willis
  • Hector Elizondo
    Hector Elizondo

    H?ctor Elizondo is a Golden Globes-nominated and Emmy Awards-winning United States actor....
     - Arthur Willis
  • Richard Crenna
    Richard Crenna

    Richard Donald Heracles Crenna was an United States film, television and radio actor. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles , Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, Rambo , Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid....
     - Phil Brody
  • Janet Jones
    Janet Jones

    Janet-Marie Jones is an United States actress, dancer and aerobics instructor. She is married to ice hockey icon Wayne Gretzky.Biography...
     - Carla Samson
  • Jessica Walter
    Jessica Walter

    Jessica Walter is an United States Emmy Award-winning actor, best known for the film Play Misty for Me and for her role as Lucille Bluth on the acclaimed sitcom Arrested Development ....
     - Phyllis Brody
  • Fisher Stevens
    Fisher Stevens

    Fisher Stevens is an United States actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of Chuck Fishman on Early Edition, Eugene "The Plague" Belford in Hackers , and Ben Jabituya/Jahrvi in Short Circuit and Short Circuit 2....
     - Hawk Ganz
  • Bronson Pinchot
    Bronson Pinchot

    Bronson Alcott Pinchot is an United States actor....
     - Alfred Shultz
  • Marisa Tomei
    Marisa Tomei

    Marisa Tomei is an American theatre, film and television actress. Tomei first came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show television spin-off A Different World , and rose to fame following an Academy Award-winning performance in the 1992 comedy film My Cousin Vinny....
     - Mandy
  • Steven Weber
    Steven Weber

    Steven Weber may refer to:* Steven Weber , American actor* Steven Weber , professor at the University of California, Berkeley, studying open source...
     - Paul Hirsch
  • Martha Gehman
    Martha Gehman

    Martha Gehman is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as Ophelia in the 80s cult classic Legend of Billie Jean.She also had supporting roles in The Flamingo Kid and Threesome ....
     - Nikki Willis


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