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Pecker
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Widescreen 1.85:1 Color / Production Year: 1998 / Region 1
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Overall Rating:  3.9 out of 5, including 5 reviews
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He never realized how far 35 millimeters would take him.
Famed writer/director John Waters chronicles America's most unlikely superstar photographer, Pecker, a Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera and starts snapping his way to stardom. Discovered by a savvy New York art dealer, Pecker's photographs, which highlight his obsessive girlfriend and her fascist laudromat, his sister and her raunchy all-male strip bar and his other "culturally challenged" family members and friends, make him a nationwide sensation. But Pecker soon discovers that instant over-exposure has its downside and he must make a fateful choice between his life and his art. Boasting a wickedly fun soundtrack, Pecker proves that "John Waters hasn't lost his taste for outrageous humor!"
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Features:
| Interactive Menus
Snapshot Gallery
On Camera Interview with Photographer Chuck Shacochis
Commentary by Waters
Trailer | Video:
| | Widescreen 1.85:1 Color | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround
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| | English
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| Studio: New Line Home Entertainment
Production Year: 1998
Release Date: 4/4/1991
Length: 86 mins
Rating: R
Chapters: 20
| Includes: Audio Commentary
Packaging: Snap Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-SL
Item Code: N4731
UPC Code: 794043473128
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Overall Rating: 3.9 out of 5, including 5 reviews
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WOODY AND FRIENDS - 4.75 out of 5 (9/27/1999)
The final words of PECKER confirm what the John Waters fan had already understood : Pecker is a brother of the provocative director. Like him, he likes to take pictures of the most trivial objects or situations. In the seventies, it would have caused disgust or violent reactions among the establishment but we are in 1999 and the art critics love his work. Even Vogue wants Pecker ; even Kathleen Turner has made a John Waters movie.
So PECKER is not a movie of the PINK FLAMINGOS type. Everythin
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The Price of Fame - 3.75 out of 5 (3/8/1999)
John Waters' amusing meditation on the consequences and the price of fame is an enjoyable comedy that avoids the usual Hollywood cliches. Using a superb ensemble cast to create a ditzy crew of characters, all charming in their own ways, he tells a story that is genuinely funny and believable. He also gets in a few licks on the pretentiousness of the art world and how seriously some people take themselves. Throughly entertaining.
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"John Waters hasn't lost his taste for outrageous humor" he just doesn't demonstrate any here. - 2.75 out of 5 (2/28/1999)
This was one of the most tedious movies by John Waters I have ever seen. The movie is chock-full of one-dimensional charachters and implausible story lines. John must be so out of touch with reality or he must think his viewers are, he takes an extremely heavy-handed approach to the story telling. For example, Pecker is taking pictures at a gay bar and the shot is of a male stripper dropping his genetailia onto the face of an exuberant client. Martha Plimpton's character shouts at the stripper
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