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Pecker

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Original title

Pecker

Year

1998

Running time

90 min.

Country

United States

Director

John Waters

Screenwriter

John Waters

Cast

Music

Stewart Copeland

Cinematography

Robert M. Stevens

Producer

Fine Line Features

Genre

Comedy | Black Comedy. Photography. Independent Film (US)

Synopsis

Writer-director Waters returns to his subversive comedic grabbag for Pecker, a restrained though amusing comedy which combines the director's penchant for shock comedy and a more accessible filmmaking style he honed after Hairspray. Set in Baltimore (where else?), the story follows the rise of young Pecker (Furlong), a fledgling photographer whose pictures of his slightly dysfunctional family and working-class neighborhood capture the attention of the New York art scene. It's trash vs. flash when these worlds collide, and Waters milks some good laughs at the expense of one and all involved. As the complaisant hero, Furlong has an agreeable comic air about him, though it's up to everyone else around him to offer the titillating laughs (Plimpton as Pecker's fag-hag older sister, Hulsey as his sugar-addicted younger sister). Pecker may not always shoot from the hip; but, then, that's not from where Waters is aiming with this omnisexual spoof -- we've seen John down and dirtier, but then he's in an awfully good mood.

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Pecker

1998

John Waters

6.2

(2,761)