The Pick-up Artist 1987

Critics score:
55 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Janet Maslin, New York Times: 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. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A light and fairly innocuous youth picture. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is an appallingly silly movie, from its juvenile comic overture to its dreadfully sincere conclusion. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: James Toback's long-gestating portrait of a one-track mind becomes bogged down in unconvincing plot mechanics. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Downey, 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. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Pickup's 'little more' is in its quirky characters and its intentionally goofy melodrama. Read more