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.
The Flamingo Kid has generally received mixed reviews.
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The Flamingo Kid was released in 1984 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 43 reviews, giving The Flamingo Kid (1984) an average rating of 60%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 83%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 67%. Professional critics were more impressed with The Flamingo Kid than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 60%, The Flamingo Kid is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1984, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1984 with similar scores include films like Bachelor Party, Red Dawn and The Toxic Avenger.
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