"Purveyor of Tastelessness"
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What You Need To Know:
John Waters is up to his old tricks in reveling in the odd, profane and disgusting with PECKER, a sweet story about rising to fame, wrapped in a world of strip clubs and dysfunction. Edward Furlong plays a charming, happy-go-lucky young photographer named Pecker who finds art all around him. He takes pictures of his dysfunctional family and his crazy neighbors and has a photography exhibit at the burger joint where he works. A New York art dealer discovers his talent, but Pecker finds out that being famous is not all it is cracked up to be.
Director Waters has always defined himself as a purveyor of tastelessness. Thus, PECKER includes lesbians stripping, homosexual males stripping, sexual taunts, rats fornicating, and a little girl who literally froths at the mouth. Worst of all is a blasphemous woman who mocks the Virgin Mary by making a ventriloquist act out of a Virgin Mary statue. The only redeeming elements of this movie are Pecker’s good-natured spirit, and his mother’s desire to clothe the poor. PECKER will not make a lot of money. John Waters knows this, but somebody gives him money and film stock to go ahead anyway. What’s wrong with this picture
Content:
(PaPaPa, B, AB, LLL, V, SSS, NNN, A, DD, M) Strong Pagan worldview of dysfunctional family with some moral elements of caring for the homeless & a continual blasphemous action of an elderly woman faking a voice coming out of a statue of Mary; 24 obscenities, 7 profanities & constant blasphemy; mild violence including trashing a supermarket & chase scene; lesbians strip in strip club & homosexual men strip in strip club; briefly depicted act of fornication, image of rats copulating, & many sexual jokes; full female nudity including a close-up & homosexuals in thong underwear; alcohol use; smoking & brief scene of man shooting up drugs; and, miscellaneous immorality including boys steal man’s toupee, girl steals candy, & delighting in sin.
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John Waters is up to his old tricks in reveling in the odd, profane and disgusting with PECKER, a sweet story about rising to fame, wrapped in a world of strip clubs and dysfunction. Edward Furlong plays a charming, happy-go-lucky young photographer named Pecker who finds art all around him. He takes pictures of his dysfunctional family and his crazy neighbors and has a photography exhibit at the burger joint where he works. A New York art dealer discovers his talent, but Pecker finds out that being famous is not all it is cracked up to be.
Director Waters has always defined himself as a purveyor of tastelessness. Thus, PECKER includes lesbians stripping, homosexual males stripping, sexual taunts, rats fornicating, and a little girl who literally froths at the mouth. Worst of all is a blasphemous woman who mocks the Virgin Mary by making a ventriloquist act out of a Virgin Mary statue. The only redeeming elements of this movie are Pecker’s good-natured spirit, and his mother’s desire to clothe the poor. PECKER will not make a lot of money. John Waters knows this, but somebody gives him money and film stock to go ahead anyway. What’s wrong with this picture?
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