The Flamingo Kid

SEEN THIS 20 YEARS AGO AND THOUGHT IT WAS A REALLY GOOD MOVIE. SEEN IT IN 2006 AND THINK ITS A GREAT MOVIE. ITS ABOUT THE COMMING OF AGE OF A 18 YEAR OLD GUY IN NEW YORK CITY. MOST OF... Full review

I always enjoy seeing something set in 1963 too; last year of that '50s era before everything kinda went to the 60's everyone knows and cringes at. Very well made, fine acting, Dillon, Crenna, Walter and Elizondo especially all at... Full review

This movie was so great when it came out and is still great. I just watched it again 20 years later! Wow, has it been that long???? Charming story of a very bright young man Jeffrey Willis who has a... Full review

Good movie, worth owning, part for the time it represents, and part because of all the good acting (understated and funny). Richard Crenna plays a great pompous jerk (are we sure he's acting?) Hector Elizondo plays one of his best... Full review

Great movie. Hopefully it will be made available on DVD soon. Matt Dillon was great as well as Richard Crenna. The characters are amazingly mundane, yet still hilarious. There are so many great lines to be taken from this movie.... Full review

This Matt Dillon vehicle serves as the light-hearted equivalent to "A Bronx Tale." Richard Crenna plays the Chazz Palmentieri role as the idolized kingpin and Hector Elizondo plays the Robert DeNiro role of the honorable working class father. There is... Full review

Matt Dillon stars as a Brooklyn kid who gets a job at a summer club as a cabana boy where he learns about life in this coming of age comedy directed by Garry Marshall..along the way he meets a stunning... Full review

Charming comedy from Garry Marshall starring Dillon as a Brooklyn teenager taken aback by the smooth lifestyles at a posh beach club. At the club he meets swift characters like car dealer Richard Crenna, in a wonderful role and the... Full review

This is a wonderfully entertaining story chock full of lessons in life. The lessons, are pretty universal and most have to be learned the hard way. The "kid", played by Matt Dillon, enters the world of the well-to-do, more well... Full review

In some of the movie's most poetic passages, he reveals a lifelong obsession with ships, and the ways of harbor pilots.....Perhaps because of his name, Matt Dillon has risked being confused with your average teenage idol, the kind the pimple magazines put on their covers.....Along the way to that lesson, THE FLAMINGO KID has a lot of fun.... ... Full Review

Set in 1963, The Flamingo Kid finds 18-year-old Brooklynite Matt Dillon , the son of blue-collar Hector Elizondo , getting a taste of the Good Life by joining several of his friends at "El Flamingo", a swank Long Island beach... ... Full Article

From Amazon : Matt Dillon broke through as a heartthrob in this surprisingly affecting comedy, from director Garry Marshall. Dillon plays a Brooklyn kid who lands a summer job at a tony Long Island beach club in 1963. ... Full Article