THE FLAMINGO KID

Despite the crass way in which this 1984 film was made, it’s a pretty funny movie about values and choices. Matt Dillon (pictured) is sweetly bewildered and very effective as a teen-ager. There’s a spectacularly good performance from Richard Crenna as the smooth-talking, fatherly gin-rummy king at a Long Island beach club where Dillon has a summer job, circa 1963. (KABC Monday at 9 p.m.)