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The Flamingo Kid

film by Marshall [1984]

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    • Garry Marshall
      In Garry Marshall: Films: Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries

      …1984 he directed and cowrote The Flamingo Kid, about a middle-class teenager (Matt Dillon) working at an upscale beach club. The movie was a hit, and it was followed two years later by Nothing in Common, which starred Tom Hanks as an ad executive dealing with his divorcing parents (Jackie…

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role of

    • Tomei
      • Marisa Tomei
        In Marisa Tomei

        …in Garry Marshall’s social comedy The Flamingo Kid (1984). She also worked in theatre in New York City. Tomei portrayed the college roommate of the character played by Lisa Bonet in the first season (1987–88) of the television sitcom A Different World, a spinoff of The Cosby Show, and she…

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    • Walter
      • Jessica Walter
        In Jessica Walter: Play Misty for Me and Amy Prentiss

        …who inherits three orangutans, and The Flamingo Kid (1984), which was directed by Garry Marshall and starred Matt Dillon. In 1998 she had a supporting role in Slums of Beverly Hills, a dramedy about a teenager (Natasha Lyonne) and her dysfunctional family.

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