The Flamingo Rising

{{short description|2001 film by Martha Coolidge}}

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| image = The flamingo rising.jpg

| caption = Movie cover

| based_on = {{Based on|The Flamingo Rising|Larry Baker}}

| writer = Richard Russo

| cinematography = Johnny E. Jensen

| starring = William Hurt
Elizabeth McGovern
Brian Benben
Christopher Larkin

| director = Martha Coolidge

| editor = David Finfer

| music = David Newman

| network = CBS

| released = {{Start date|2001|02|04}}

| runtime = 94 minutes

| language = English

| producer = Brent Shields
Robert Bennett Steinhauer
Richard Welsh

| budget =

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The Flamingo Rising is a 2001 dramatic film in the Hallmark Hall of Fame released on CBS in February 2001, and based on the novel The Flamingo Rising written by Larry Baker in 1997. The movie stars Christopher Larkin, William Hurt, Elizabeth McGovern, and Brian Benben. The movie focuses on the feud between a funeral parlor owner and a man who wants to set up a large drive-in theatre across the street from the parlor. Former In the Heat of the Night star Randall Franks returned to CBS, which aired the film, in the cameo role of "Officer Randy Kraft."