The Flamingo Kid
“A legend in his own neighborhood.”
ComedyDramaRomance
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.
VIBE
A sun-drenched, bittersweet summer of self-discovery. It feels like a hazy memory of youthful ambition and the allure of a more glamorous world, tinged with the wisdom of experience.
nostalgicwistfulcharmingcoming-of-agebittersweetsteady1960s period pieceslice-of-lifecharacter-drivenlighthearted dramaclassidentityfamilyambition
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