Production Year: 1998 - Comedy - Director: John Waters - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Beth Armstrong, Martha Plimpton, Brendan Sexton III, Mink Stole, Cindy Sherman more
Advantages: Surreal but very good little known film Disadvantages: A bit too strange for some people?
I hadn’t heard of this film, as I guess many of you haven’t, until I was looking through Christina Ricci’s filmography and saw ‘Pecker’. Hmmm, I thought, wonder what it’s about. I love Ricci, she’s one of my favourite actresses and when I saw this DVD in the shop I picked it up.
The back of the box told me little, Edward Furlong (Terminator 2, American History X) plays Pecker, a guy who likes to take photos ...
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02.08.2001
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Advantages: Nice slice-of-life comedy, very funny Disadvantages: You might find it a bit slow/bizarre
...plays the title character, named Pecker because "he always used to peck at his food" - a likely story Mr Waters! I bet Guy Ritchie never knew what he was getting into with Snatch either, eh? EH?
Anyway, Pecker is a sandwich shop worker by day, and photographer by day, and night, in fact he photographs pretty much anything - rats making love in a trash can, women shaving their legs on the bus. And then there's his dysfunctional family. His dad owns ...
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Advantages: Talented lead actors in Furlong, Ricci and Taylor... Disadvantages: All of whom are wasted on this film.
...and even at 90 minutes Pecker does seem at least an hour too long, during a show of some of his pictures which takes place at the grill cafe where Pecker works, some art afficionado from New York recognizes that Pecker is a really talented snapper. Thereafter his pictures become the toast of the art world. He nearly cheats on his girlfriend (played by the gorgeous, far-too-good-for-this-film Christina Ricci), but doesn't; he nearly relocates to New ...
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