Pecker (1998)
Country: US
Technical: col 86m
Director: John Waters
Cast: Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Bess Armstrong
Synopsis:
An amateur photographer in Baltimore with an unusual family and an eye for mundane beauty is noticed by a New York art dealer, and his life is transformed.
Review:
A familiar tale of local boy-made-good who finds that his former friends respond to him differently once he is famous - pretentiousness threatens spontaneity, and so forth - is used by Waters as a peg on which to snapshoot every conceivable minority interest and thus offend as many people as possible. The deliberate gross-out tactics can become wearing, though the opening credits, unsteady and out of focus, parody beautifully cinema projection standards today.
Country: US
Technical: col 86m
Director: John Waters
Cast: Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Bess Armstrong
Synopsis:
An amateur photographer in Baltimore with an unusual family and an eye for mundane beauty is noticed by a New York art dealer, and his life is transformed.
Review:
A familiar tale of local boy-made-good who finds that his former friends respond to him differently once he is famous - pretentiousness threatens spontaneity, and so forth - is used by Waters as a peg on which to snapshoot every conceivable minority interest and thus offend as many people as possible. The deliberate gross-out tactics can become wearing, though the opening credits, unsteady and out of focus, parody beautifully cinema projection standards today.
Country: US
Technical: col 86m
Director: John Waters
Cast: Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Bess Armstrong
Synopsis:
An amateur photographer in Baltimore with an unusual family and an eye for mundane beauty is noticed by a New York art dealer, and his life is transformed.
Review:
A familiar tale of local boy-made-good who finds that his former friends respond to him differently once he is famous - pretentiousness threatens spontaneity, and so forth - is used by Waters as a peg on which to snapshoot every conceivable minority interest and thus offend as many people as possible. The deliberate gross-out tactics can become wearing, though the opening credits, unsteady and out of focus, parody beautifully cinema projection standards today.