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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Pan and Scan (TV Format), English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
Jeffrey Willis is out to set the world on fire... starting with a well-to-do Long Island beach club! Matt Dillon leads an all-star cast, including Richard Crenna, Hector Elizondo, Jessica Walter and Janet Jones, in this poignant, fast-moving and totally engrossing story that USA Today calls "funny, sensitive [and] beautifully written!"Everything was settled for 18-year-old Jeffrey (Dillon), the plumber's son from Brooklyn: one last summer of carefree fun before college. but when he gets a job as a cabana boy at the El Flamingo Beach Club - with its shapely coeds, gin-playing cardsharps and wealthy snobs - Jeffrey is lured into a world distinctly different from his working-class roots... a world that could ultimately draw him away from his education, his background and his family!System Requirements:Starring: Richard Crenna, Matt Dillon, Hector Elizondo, Jess Walters Directed By: Garry Marshall Running Time: 100 Min., Color Copyright 2003 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE
"...a lot of fun." Roger Ebert
"Very likable... Crenna scores a bull's-eye..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
Jeffrey Willis, an 18-year-old from a working class family, gets a job as a cabana boy at an exclusive Rockaway beach club in New York. There he experiences a new world of wealth, snobbery, and leisure.
Plot Summary
A warm-hearted coming-of-age tale set in the early 1960s. Jeffrey Willis, a working-class kid from Brooklyn, gets a summer job at a glitzy Rockaway beach club. Dazzled by a fast-talking sports car salesman he meets at the club, the impressionable teenager is tempted to abandon the down-to-earth values of his family for the promise of easy money.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Widescreen Version | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 9/20/2005 |
| Running Time: 100 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1984 | | Catalog ID: 1004934 | | UPC: 00027616889386 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Golden Globe (1958) | | | Richard Crenna, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor In A Motion Picture |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Ebullient, unsentimental....By far the best -- and funniest -- work yet done by [Dillon, and by Marshall]..." 12/21/1984 p.C25Variety
"...Refreshingly realistic and likeable....[The film] has a modesty and charm along the lines of DINER and BREAKING AWAY..." 11/28/1984 The Motion Picture Guide 7 of 10
There's not a single bad performance in this film, with each role cast to perfection. Dillon's metamorphosis from a Brooklyn street punk to a determined young man is a marvelous portrait.
VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 6 of 10
Excellent performances all around, nice ensemble acting among the young men who play Dillon's buddies. Great soundtrack.
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