A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful choice between his life and his art.
Edward Furlong Christina Ricci Bess Armstrong Mark Joy Mary Kay Place Martha Plimpton Brendan Sexton III Mink Stole Lili Taylor Patricia Hearst Jean Schertler Lauren Hulsey Mo Fischer Donald Neal Carolyn Stayer Jack Webster Alan J. Wendl Judith Knight Young Anthony Roger Billy Tolzman Bryan J. Thomas Tim Caggiano Betsy Ames Scott Morgan Valerie Karasek Cindy Sherman Joyce Flick Wendl Liam Hughes Greg Gorman Show All…
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This feels almost like the OK Soda equivalent of a John Waters movie — a surface level return to the scratchy rockabilly needledrops, gutter trash townies, and outwardly queer sensibilities of his early work, but made with a Hollywood cast, a capitalistic happy ending, and a nonstop barrage of not-too-subtle product placement (this is the second movie with prominent use of Jolt Cola that I've seen in about a week). It's a return to form, but while Pecker delights in only talking about acts like teabagging and dutch ovens, early works like Mondo Trasho and Multiple Maniacs shove them in your face, confronting you with endless shrimping scenes and rosary jobs.
That's not to say that any of this is…
pecker is the most loving tribute to baltimore waters has created so far. it is a pure, loving piece of art.
In its own way as warm and fuzzy as Hairspray, but with a comfortable layer of grime that shows how close the world was to catching up to John Waters in 1998. American Pie would come out the very next year, and what is that if not like a mainstream, watered down Waters knock-off?
"Are you a homosexual?"
"Uh, no, I'm not."
"You wouldn't understand then."
This film is as if Female Trouble had a little, less chaotic kid brother. While I don't think its as good as Female Trouble, if you're a big fan of John Waters, I'd say give it a watch.
This film is full of so many good quotes, like "No teabagging, you know the rules" and "Trade is my life". It's an extremely quotable film.
Pecker is John Water's raunchy takedown of influencer culture decades before the term even existed. Makes for a fantastic triple feature alongside Shaft and Dick. Maybe Free Willy.
John Waters' late 90's comedy takes aim at irony and the bourgeoisie, but somehow manages to feel like one of his most laid-back and breezy flicks at the same time.
Pecker is a young photographer in Baltimore whose bizarre output lands him in the hands of the NY elite as a budding art star. One minute, he's trying to sell his vulgar prints out of the fast food joint he flips burgers at, the next minute he's about to do a full exhibit at the Whitney. Of course with fame comes a price, as this switches to a scathing critique like some satirical allegory or hipster-fable. Good thing this is a John Waters joint, so plenty of banging rats, tea-bagging,…
“No balls on forehead. Teabagging is forbidden here at
the Fudge Palace.”
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
One of John Waters most underrated flicks. It is SO funny. The characters, just unbelievably funny, the grandma, lil Chrissy, and all the background Baltimore people, all so good. I have a soft spot for this one in the Waters canon because to me it feels like the kind of Baltimore that Waters writes about in his books, this is as Baltimore trashy as it gets.
At this point in his career Mr Waters was comfortable just making fun movies, he didn’t have anything to prove or felt he needed to keep up with his filth aesthetic. What a pro. I love that…
Full of grace!
Probably the most pleasant film to involve teabagging outside of Paddington 2.
Apart from the title being a dick joke and the string of quotable lines, Pecker isn’t anything special. It’s a minor film in John Waters filmography and that’s not a bad it just wasn’t my thing. For me this started really strong and the first act before New York was great, there were some very fun moments that had me laughing but that’s it. It was when Pecker returned home and had a downfall that ruined his life and everyone else around him and their liives, was where the film lost my interest and became stale. These moments of people catching him and his family being destroyed felt repetitive and overdone, yet it’s some how it’s naturally fixed. I enjoy this…
