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.
19 January 1954, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA
20 February 1967, Glencoe, Illinois, USA
22 April 1946, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
23 September 1937, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
12 February 1980, Santa Monica, California, USA
16 November 1970, New York City, New York, USA
20 February 1954, San Francisco, California, USA
30 October 1979, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
8 November 1940
21 February 1980, Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
April 17, 2001
light-hearted comedy that could play at multiplexes and will even appear at Blockbuster alongside mainstream comediesAugust 22, 2005
Pecker is Hairspray with Kodak film stock, or Crybaby without the juvenile delinquency angleNovember 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.January 01, 2000
The movie is fast and warmly generous towards just about everyone on the screen.March 03, 2002
Writer and director John Waters has fashioned a sassy, irreverent movie about art, fame, culture shock, and class consciousness.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."May 04, 2005
A transparent, laugh-free parable about Waters' own rise to fame.June 02, 2001
...mostly potshots, lightly diverting goofiness with a too-pat happy ending.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.February 01, 2004
Lacks an edge.