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Pecker
Pecker, a Baltimore sandwich shop employee, becomes an overnight sensation when a photographer's photos he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world. But soon Pecker discovers that fame has its price.
25 August 1947, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
1966, Lynwood, California, USA
20 February 1954, San Francisco, California, USA
1949, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
23 September 1947, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
6 September 1939, New York City, New York, USA
27 January 1961, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
1989
12 December 1962, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
19 January 1954, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA
June 02, 2001
...mostly potshots, lightly diverting goofiness with a too-pat happy ending.
January 01, 2000
The movie is fast and warmly generous towards just about everyone on the screen.
April 10, 2003
I had a great time. It was like skipping school, stealing some comic books, and reading them behind an old abandoned warehouse.
March 03, 2002
Writer and director John Waters has fashioned a sassy, irreverent movie about art, fame, culture shock, and class consciousness.
August 22, 2005
Pecker is Hairspray with Kodak film stock, or Crybaby without the juvenile delinquency angle
April 17, 2001
light-hearted comedy that could play at multiplexes and will even appear at Blockbuster alongside mainstream comedies
November 13, 2002
If the rest of John Waters' Pecker was as funny as its first half-hour is, it might have been one of the all-time greats.
May 04, 2005
A transparent, laugh-free parable about Waters' own rise to fame.
November 26, 2009
There are many odd treats, like seeing former SLA hostage Patty Hearst dancing on a bar in a low-cut slip and getting a crash course in "tea-baggng."
February 01, 2004
Lacks an edge.