Pecker . Tucson Weekly . 10-05-98

Pecker

DIRECTED BY: John Waters

REVIEWED: 10-05-98

John Waters may not be as funny and gross as he was in the old days, but at least you can hear the dialogue in his movies now. Pecker weds a dash of Water's campy old style to a heartwarming story about a young photographer (they call him Pecker) who makes it big in the New York art world. No one is more surprised at this than Pecker himself (Edward Furlong), a clean-scrubbed young man with an eccentric family. Mom (Mary Kay Place) runs a thrift shop, for example, and grandma has a special "talking Mary" figurine. Those slick New York scenesters, buzzing around in their black turtlenecks, try to mold Pecker into their flavor-of-the-moment art star. But Pecker has his own ideas of how to unleash the style of Baltimore upon the world. Though a John Water's movie today is not as shocking as it was in the '70s, in Pecker you can still find plenty of his inimitable and wonderfully offensive panache.

--Richter

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