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The Flamingo Kid
Why this pick
A warm, funny coming-of-age story about a working-class young man encountering a wealthier world, balancing class awareness, romantic possibility, and an easygoing summer atmosphere.
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MOVIE1979 1h 40m USA
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
The movie that tells you exactly what you can do with your high school diploma!
Dave, Mike, Cyril, and Moocher are working-class friends living in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana. Now turning 19, they all graduated from high school the year before and are not sure what to do with their lives. They spend much of their time together swimming in an old abandoned water-filled quarry. They sometimes Town and gown with the more affluent Indiana University Bloomington students in their hometown, who habitually refer to them as "cutters", a derogatory term for locals related to the local Indiana Limestone industry and the stonecutters who worked the quarries.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Daniel Stern
Cyril
Barbara Barrie
Evelyn Stoller
Paul Dooley
Ray Stoller
Robyn Douglass
Katherine
Amy Wright
Nancy
John Ashton
Mike's Brother
Hart Bochner
Rod
Dennis Quaid
Mike