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Pecker is a 1998 American comedy film written and directed by John Waters. Edward Furlong plays the title character, a Baltimore teenager whose candid photographs of family members, neighbors, and local life attract the attention of an art dealer from New York. The film uses the conflict between everyday community life and the commercial art world to satirize taste, exploitation, and the way outsiders turn other people's lives into cultural material.
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Who directed Pecker and when did it come out?
Pecker is a 1998 comedy written and directed by John Waters, the Baltimore filmmaker behind 'Pink Flamingos' and 'Hairspray.' It came between his films 'Serial Mom' (1994) and 'Cecil B. Demented' (2000).
Who stars in John Waters's Pecker?
Edward Furlong plays the title character, a Baltimore teen photographer, with Christina Ricci as his laundromat-owning girlfriend Shelley. Lili Taylor plays Rorey, the New York art dealer who discovers him, and Martha Plimpton plays his sister Tina.
What is the plot of Pecker about?
Pecker is a teenager working in a Baltimore sandwich shop who takes candid photos of his eccentric family and neighbors, and a hip New York art dealer suddenly turns him into the art world's latest sensation. The film satirizes how the Manhattan art scene consumes and threatens his working-class Fells Point world.
Where was Pecker filmed?
Like nearly all of John Waters's films, it was shot on location in Baltimore, Maryland, with much of the action set around the Fells Point neighborhood. The setting is central to the film's affectionate send-up of the city's local color.
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