 Critics were mixed about the film.Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" wrote "The movie can't make up its mind whether it's about a tumultuously difficult but rewarding friendship or whether it's a sendup of the contemporary literary scene.It fails as both...The culprit is Gerald Ayres...[who] has spread his talents very thin...Though he has written two big roles, he doesn't seem capable of writing either a romantic drama, like "The Turning Point", or an informed satire...Mr. Ayres can occasionally write good wisecracks...But he has no particular insight into the publishing scene.