Rotten
James Toback's long-gestating portrait of a one-track mind becomes bogged down in unconvincing plot mechanics.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Pick-up Artist
The Pick-Up Artist... has finally met his match.
1987 · 1h 21m · PG-13
Comedy, Crime, Romance
Directed by
James Toback
Overview
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
Director and cast
- James Toback Director
- Molly Ringwald as Randy Jensen
- Robert Downey Jr. as Jack Jericho
- Dennis Hopper as Flash Jensen
- Danny Aiello as Phil Harper
- Harvey Keitel as Alonzo Scolara
- Vanessa Williams as Rae, Girl with Dog
- Mildred Dunnock as Nellie
- Brian Hamill as Mike
- Tamara Bruno as Karen
- Angie Kempf as Jack's Student
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
59%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
This is an appallingly silly movie, from its juvenile comic overture to its dreadfully sincere conclusion.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
A light and fairly innocuous youth picture.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Pickup's 'little more' is in its quirky characters and its intentionally goofy melodrama.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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