PECKER

Few filmmakers have made themselves so synonymous with a city as Waters has with Baltimore, and with PECKER, he offers both a hysterical commentary on both the plight of the “regional” artist and the tension between America’s provinces and its taste-making cultural capitals. Art is everywhere! "To the end of irony!"

Pecker (Edward Furlong), an 18-year-old sandwich slinger and amateur street photographer, becomes the unlikely darling of the New York art world when a hotshot dealer discovers the grainy black-and-white photos he’s been taking of friends and neighbors around the working-class Hampden neighborhood. But in his meteoric rise he risks losing his soul, his naïve talent, and his girlfriend (Christina Ricci). A riotous defilement of NYC snobbery from the gutters of Charm City, PECKER is surprisingly warm and fuzzy while also being historically significant as the film that introduced the term “teabagging” into mainstream usage.

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