James Toback's long-gestating portrait of a one-track mind becomes bogged down in unconvincing plot mechanics.
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02/27/08
The Pick-Up Artist (1987)
55 %
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Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 11
Rotten:9
Average Rating: 5/10
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Lady's man Jack Jericho goes through life without a care in the world, seducing one woman after another. Then he meets indifferent museum guide Randy Jensen, who consents to a one-night stand but... [More]
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Robert Downey, Dennis Hopper, Danny Aiello
Director: James Toback
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Reviews for The Pick-Up Artist
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Top CriticToback has devised an interesting premise that draws parallels between risking one's heart and one's wallet, but the picture itself risks little.
02/27/08
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11/04/07
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07/01/05
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06/24/05
Features Robert Downey Jr. as a smooth-talking womanizer who meets his match.
03/27/04
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03/19/04
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03/12/04
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02/26/04
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02/08/04
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07/15/03
The film roams from the Upper West Side to Coney Island to Atlantic City, maintaining a lighthearted style that doesn't quite match the hints of obsessiveness in Mr. Toback's screenplay.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
02/04/03
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11/04/02
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07/26/02
Pickup's 'little more' is in its quirky characters and its intentionally goofy melodrama.
01/01/00
Top CriticDowney, who worked for one season on Saturday Night Live, has just the right emotional weight for the role of Jack, and the right touch of goofy boyishness to soften his aggressiveness.
01/01/00
Top CriticA light and fairly innocuous youth picture.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis is an appallingly silly movie, from its juvenile comic overture to its dreadfully sincere conclusion.
01/01/00
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