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The Pick-up Artist (1987) 4.8
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for a woman in debt to the mafia. Director:James TobackWriter:James Toback |
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| Molly Ringwald | ... |
Randy Jensen
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| Robert Downey Jr. | ... |
Jack Jericho
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Phil Harper
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| Mildred Dunnock | ... |
Nellie
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| Harvey Keitel | ... |
Alonzo Scolara
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Brian Hamill | ... |
Mike
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Tamara Bruno | ... |
Karen
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Rae, Girl with Dog
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Angie Kempf | ... |
Jack's Student
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| Polly Draper | ... |
Pat, Jack's Colleague
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| Fred Koehler | ... |
Richie
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| Robert Towne | ... |
Stan
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Victoria Jackson | ... |
Lulu
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| Lorraine Bracco | ... |
Carla
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A womanizer meets his match when he falls for a woman in debt to the mafia.
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The Pick-Up Artist... has finally met his match.Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
18 September 1987 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
El cazachicas See more »Box Office
Budget:
$15,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$13,290,368 (USA)Company Credits
Production Co:
Amercent Films, American Entertainment Partners L.P., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation See more »
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[Referring to his alcoholism, as he dumps out his drink]
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Toback based the character of Jack on himself. See more »Goofs
During the most of the movie, Randy wears a blouse is buttoned up to the neck and a necklace over the top of it. Except for the scene where she is exiting the casino after her big loss, as she walks out and her blouse is unbuttoned at the neck and she is not wearing the necklace. However, in the next scene the blouse is buttoned again and necklace returns. The description of an apparent discontinuity is accurate; however, in the shot with open blouse and sans necklace, Randy is also not wearing her jacket. In the following shot, as she emerges from the casino with Jack after her devastating setback, she has donned her jacket, buttoned her blouse, and restored her necklace. The apparent costume discontinuity dissolves in the brief lapse of unrecorded time. See more »Quotes
Flash Jensen: You know something? I can't do this anymore.[Referring to his alcoholism, as he dumps out his drink]
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What a lesson in film-making!
Let me report that among date movies, very few age well. This one has improved remarkably with age.
Part of the reason is the two main actors. Molly is her most striking here. She's absolutely at her peak in what she does, which is a sort of sassy, deliberately fostered innocent/wise cuteness. No one can do this today, and the attempts are depressing. Kate Hudson? We all die a little when she tries.
And then we have Downey. He's already heavy into drugs and he doesn't have the drugged discipline he had in "Chaplin." But he has an energy that is so appealing. Undisciplined, druggy energy would usually be just dispersed effort, but this is a date movie, something that depends on misregistration of self.
And look who surrounds them: Aiello doing his working class avuncular bit. Keitel being such a movie gangster they bleeped his every speech. And Dennis Hopper! That man who is a permanent token of intoxicated risktaking. Three solid marks in film characters, all portrayed by their inventors.
You can see that the filmmaker is a writer. The script is actually very good. Very good indeed for what it is and the assets that are available. The direction is so inadequate it hurts. But it hurts in exactly the right way. This is a film about stretching, about yearning without touching. Its all about inadequacy in love, a sort of reality-tinged inadequacy overlain on the romantic comedy template.
Because the camera is always in the wrong place, is always too tentative, is always unsure of itself, but still goes, still goes...
It puts us in the thing as one of these kids, clumsy, bold without cause.
I recommend this. I do. Its problems work for it.
Molly has faded as a presence now. But that's inevitable because of how we all exploited her youth. We shouldn't think that she is a flake, like say Meg Ryan or Julia Roberts. This very year she starred in one of the most intellectually ambitious movies of all time, Godards "King Lear." And more recently, she was in a Greenaway film. No stupid actor would do that.
Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.