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The Pick-up Artist
The Pick-up Artist is a comedy, crime, drama film by director James Toback. It has content revolves around a womanizer when he meets his match and he falls for a woman in debt to the mafia. What will happen with them? Can he find happiness and save this woman?
30 January 1960, Millville, New Jersey, USA
16 June 1975, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
2 October 1954, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
19 October 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA
13 May 1939, Brooklyn, New York, USA
6 May 1917, New York, USA
20 June 1933, New York City, New York, USA
5 November 1934, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
January 01, 2000
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.
January 01, 2000
Pickup's 'little more' is in its quirky characters and its intentionally goofy melodrama.
March 27, 2004
Features Robert Downey Jr. as a smooth-talking womanizer who meets his match.
February 27, 2008
Toback has devised an interesting premise that draws parallels between risking one's heart and one's wallet, but the picture itself risks little.
May 20, 2003
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.
September 19, 2002
A very challenging movie. Downey Jr and Ringwald sizzle.
January 01, 2000
A light and fairly innocuous youth picture.
January 01, 2000
This is an appallingly silly movie, from its juvenile comic overture to its dreadfully sincere conclusion.
February 27, 2008
James Toback's long-gestating portrait of a one-track mind becomes bogged down in unconvincing plot mechanics.
October 09, 2016
Molly Ringwald and Robert Downey Jr. head the unusually talented cast of characters assembled for this small but taut film.