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.
20 February 1954, San Francisco, California, USA
14 October 1923, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, USA
26 October 1942, Clifton Springs, New York, USA
19 January 1948, Reidsville, North Carolina, USA
1989
25 August 1947, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
30 October 1979, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
1966, Lynwood, California, USA
January 01, 2000
The movie is fast and warmly generous towards just about everyone on the screen.
June 02, 2001
...mostly potshots, lightly diverting goofiness with a too-pat happy ending.
February 01, 2004
Lacks an edge.
March 03, 2002
Writer and director John Waters has fashioned a sassy, irreverent movie about art, fame, culture shock, and class consciousness.
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.
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
May 04, 2005
A transparent, laugh-free parable about Waters' own rise to fame.
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.
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."
