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The Flamingo Kid

1984

Garry Marshall

Matt Dillon, Hector Elizondo, Molly McCarthy, Martha Gehman ...

4.7

128

Comedy. Drama. Romance 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 champ, Phil Brody (Crenna).

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Dillon has the kind of acting intelligence that allows him to play each scene for no more than that particular scene is really about; he's not trying to summarize the message in every speech. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Paul Attanasio The Washington Post	"The movie has an engaging surface, but it's all surface -- it's like watching an outsize TV."	NEU
United States	Variety Staff Variety	Dillon does a good job in his fullest, least narcissistic characterization to date."	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"Some of the film's junkiness is enjoyable, but there's also an unenjoyable cultural fundamentalism at work. Marshall is telling us that the complications of the last two decades are unimportant."	NEU
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Even if 'The Flamingo Kid' comes out of sit-com country, the character and the performance effortlessly rise above their origins.	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Professionally made, quite entertaining, and disappointingly hollow."	NEU

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