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The Pick-up Artist

Year:
Duration:
81 min
Genres:
Comedy | Crime | Romance
IMDB rate:
5.1
Director:
James Toback
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1987-09-18
Filming Locations: Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Earnings
Budget: $15,000,000
Gross: $13,290,368 (USA) Filming Dates 19 May 1986 -  August 1986 Copyright Holder Copyright © 1987 by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Related Links
Cast
Actor
Character
Molly Ringwald
Randy Jensen
Dennis Hopper
Flash Jensen
Danny Aiello
Phil Harper
Mildred Dunnock
Nellie
Harvey Keitel
Alonzo Scolara
Brian Hamill
Mike
Tamara Bruno
Karen
Vanessa Williams
Rae, Girl with Dog
Angie Kempf
Jack's Student
Polly Draper
Pat, Jack's Colleague
Fred Koehler
Richie (as Frederick Koehler)
Robert Towne
Stan
Victoria Jackson
Lulu
Lorraine Bracco
Carla
Bob Gunton
Fernando Portacarrero
Clem Caserta
Clem (as Clemenze Caserta)
John Butera
Gene
Phoebe Ungerer
Gene's Girl
Victor Argo
Harris
Fred Melamed
George
Patrick Johnson
Bruce
Kenny Kiernan
OTB Cashier
Anne Bobby
Mona (as Anne Marie Bobby)
Don Peoples
Harry
Sidney Armus
Sidney
Bea Soong
Museum Employee
Christine Sclafani
Angie
Alexis Cruz
Charlie
Brad Frankel
Jack's Class #1
Eric Jason
Jack's Class #2
Mary Griffin
Jack's Class #3
Marc Joseph
Jack's Class #4
Beverly Kaik
Jack's Class #5
Meghan Lahey
Jack's Class #6
Bianca Levin
Jack's Class #7
Anna Lee
Joan the Model
Michelle Eabray
Michelle the Model
Isabel García Lorca
Museum Information Lady (as Isabel Garcia-Lorca)
Raisen Cain
Hot Ice #1
James Jackson
Hot Ice #2
Randall Jackson
Hot Ice #3
Melvin Shepherd
Hot Ice #4
Bob Maroff
Basketball Concession Owner
Reni Santoni
Man in Train Station (as Rene Santoni)
Geoffrey Nauffts
Stewart
Edward Rowan
Museum Guard
Christine Baranski
Harriet
Daniel Smith
Cashier
Tony Sirico
Patsy Cabaluso
Joe Spinell
Eddie
Philip Campanaro
Pete (as Phil Campanaro)
Tony Cucci
Mickey
Tony Conforti
Tony
Andre DeHavenon
Andre
Frank Teixeira
Blackjack Dealer
Michael Sessa
Joe (as Michael 'Smiley' Sessa)
Skip Rose
Hotel Manager
Frank Gio
Gino (as Frankie Gio)
Jilly Rizzo
Casino Floor Manager
Tom Signorelli
Marty
Bobby Thomas
Croupier
Rod Houts
Serge Handfeld
Jessica Jennings
Central Park Girl (uncredited)
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Trivia
Debut film as a full producer [at least credited] of David Leigh MacLeod who previously had only been an associate producer. This picture was the first, last and only ever movie as a credited full producer for MacLeod.
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The movie had a title song written by Stevie Wonder who did not sing the tune though as he had done for the title song for the then recent similarly themed film The Woman in Red (1984) where for that movie Wonder won a Best Song Academy Award for the track "I Just Called To Say I Love You".
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Some of the film's english translations of its foreign film titles, according to the "Robert Downey Jr. Film Guide" website, were as follows: Argentina: El Cazachicas (The Girlhunter); Brazil: O Rei da Paquera (The Pickup King); Denmark: God til piger (Good to Girls); Finland: Katujen Casanova (Street Cassanova); France: Le Dragueur (The Dredger); Germany: Jack der Aufreisser (Jack the Ripper); Italy: Ehi... Ci Stai? (Hey... Are You There?); Poland: Podrywacz Artysta (A Fast-Working Artist); Sweden: Galen i Randy (Crazy for Randy) and Venezuela: El Cazachicas (The Girlhunter).
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Goofs
When Randy leads Jack and a group of kids on a tour of the museum, she and the kids refer to a dinosaur as a 'Brontosaurus'. By the 1980s it was already well known that the correct name for this animal is 'Apatosaurus'. A tour guide should know this.
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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.
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Quotes
Jack Jericho: Did anyone ever tell you you're too good to be true?
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Flash Jensen: You know something? I can't do this anymore.
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Jack Jericho: Being with you isn't a gamble, you can only gamble when you have a choice. I wanna be with you forever, and I don't have a choice about that, maybe I don't have a prayer in the world, but that's not a gamble. Maybe what I feel is not good for you, or for me but I'm not gonna stand here and listen to you tell me it's a bad habit.
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Photos from cast
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