In 1963 Brooklyn, Jeffrey Willis has just finished high school and isn't quite sure what the future holds. His parents expect him to go to college, but he is starting to find his close-knit family stifling. He gets a summer job at the Flamingo beach club where he meets Phil Brody, a successful car dealer who fills his head with ideas about how to make his fortune. Phil is everything Jeffrey would like to be: popular, rich, and the best gin rummy player the club has ever seen.... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1963 Brooklyn, Jeffrey Willis has just finished high school and isn't quite sure what the future holds. His parents expect him to go to college, but he is starting to find his close-knit family stifling. He gets a summer job at the Flamingo beach club where he meets Phil Brody, a successful car dealer who fills his head with ideas about how to make his fortune. Phil is everything Jeffrey would like to be: popular, rich, and the best gin rummy player the club has ever seen. Jeffrey's coming-of-age includes a romance with the very pretty Carla Samson, but the shine on Phil Brody's philosophy of life wears off when he uncovers a significant flaw in his character.
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| Washington PostPaul AttanasioThe movie has an engaging surface, but it's all surface -- it's like watching an outsize TV. |
| VarietyVariety StaffDillon does a good job in his fullest, least narcissistic characterization to date. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasWinning comedy about a have-not among the haves. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertDillon 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. That gives him an ease, an ability to play the teenage hero as if every day were a whole summer long. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordEven if The Flamingo Kid comes out of sit-com country, the character and the performance effortlessly rise above their origins. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumProfessionally made, quite entertaining, and disappointingly hollow. |
| Apollo GuideErik ChildressThe Flamingo Kid is one of those rare films that follows a traditional method of coming-of-age storytelling and then shakes it up by not dealing us mere caricatures and stereotypes. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyProfessionally made, quite entertaining, and disappointingly hollow. |
| The New YorkerPauline KaelThe movie has an engaging surface, but it's all surface -- it's like watching an outsize TV. |
| User ReviewJessica JReminds me of my Brooklyn days at my Aunt's cabana. |
