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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