Drama-The Flamingo Kid

Beta Tape The Flamingo Kid Drama/Comedy…VB5072..Color… 98 mins…Vestron Video..Starring..Matt Dillion, Richard Crenna, Hector Elizondo, Jessica Walter… Teen superstar Matt Dillion, comes of age as an actor of enormous scope and talent in this unanimously acclaimed charmer from director Garry Marshall, also starring Richard Crenna, Hector Elizondo and Jessica Walter. The Flamingo Kid has been called "laugh-out-loud funny," " the perfect gift" and " a movie worth getting in line for"— it is one of those rare films in which gifted performances and a sharply etched script leave you with a story that rings true and characters who loom larger than life. Everything was settaled for 18-year-old Jeffrey Willis ( Dillion), the plu,ber s son from Brooklyn: one last summer of carefree fun before college. That was until his friends come speeding up in their 1960 convertible to invite Jeffrey for an innocent day at their parents fancy beach club on Long Island. Suddenly, a summer of packing groceries and lusting after stock girls becomes a season of discovery. Jeffrey gets a job as a cabana boy at the El Flamingo Beach Club — a world of rich and shapely coeds, gin-playing card sharps and wealthy snobs. From his first cabana encounter with Carla he is hooked, and lured to a world distinctly different from his working class roots. 1963. It was a summer of innocence and of change — a summer of awakening for The Flamingo Kid.