Flamingo Kid [DVD] [1984] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actor : Matt Dillon
  • Actor : Hector Elizondo
  • Actor : Molly McCarthy
  • Actor : Martha Gehman
  • Actor : Richard Crenna
  • Aspect Ratio : 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Binding : DVD
  • Creator : Matt Dillon
  • Creator : Hector Elizondo
  • Creator : James A. Contner
  • Creator : Garry Marshall
  • Creator : Priscilla Nedd-Friendly
  • Creator : Michael Phillips
  • Creator : Nick Abdo
  • Creator : Bo Goldman
  • Creator : Neal Marshall
  • Director : Garry Marshall
  • EAN : 9780792857297
  • Format : Closed-captioned
  • Format : Colour
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : Full Screen
  • Format : Letterboxed
  • Format : Subtitled
  • Format : Widescreen
  • Format : NTSC
  • Is Adult Product? : No
  • ISBN : 0792857291
  • Label : MGM (Video & DVD)
  • Languages : Subtitled: English, Subtitled: Spanish, Subtitled: French, Original Language: English
  • Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD)
  • MPN : MGMD1004934D
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.60 inches (Height) x 7.50 inches (Length) x 0.20 pounds (Weight) x 5.30 inches (Width)
  • Package Quantity : 1
  • Part Number : MGMD1004934D
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 2003-08-05
  • Running Time : 100
  • SKU : 02761688938U
  • Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
  • UPC : 027616889386

As The Flamingo Kid amply demonstrates, there's always room for one more rites of passage film if it's made with care and affection. Garry Marshall's 1984 study of a young Brooklyn poker player who thinks the grass is greener at a Long Island beach club, nails the bad guy, realises he got it wrong and returns to the bosom of his "humble" family certainly satisfies on both counts. It also has a strong cast: Matt Dillon as Jeffrey, whose niggling aspirations create the inevitable barrier between himself and his parents; Richard Crenna as his prospective role model who turns out to have feet of clay; and Hector Elizondo as his bemused father. But Jessica Walter (Clint Eastwood's stalker from hell in Play Misty for Me) almost steals the show as an acid-tongued beach-club wife. If the whole thing lacks the depth and warmth of, say, Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, it succeeds on its own merits as an homage to a more innocent time when a young man didn't need to stray far from his own tenement block in order to find himself, with the help of a suitably nostalgic early-1960s soundtrack of course. On the DVD: As far as extras go, this is a budget offering. There are detailed actor biographies but precious little on the film itself, apart from the snippet that Richard Crenna earned a Golden Globe award nomination. There is an adequate scene index and, for those who want to study Dillon in detail, a reasonable stills gallery. The picture is presented in standard format, and hardly distinguishable from ordinary VHS or telecast quality, but the stereo audio certainly helps pump out the period soundtrack. --Piers Ford

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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