
A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when a photographer's photos he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world.... (Full plot summary below)
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A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when a photographer's photos he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world.
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| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonI had a great time. It was like skipping school, stealing some comic books, and reading them behind an old abandoned warehouse. |
| Dallas ObserverAndy KleinPecker is a satire, but an incredibly good-natured one, which is not quite the contradiction in terms it might seem. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyThere are many odd treats, like seeing former SLA hostage Patty Hearst dancing on a bar in a low-cut slip and getting a crash course in "tea-baggng." |
| DVD VerdictBill GibronPecker is Hairspray with Kodak film stock, or Crybaby without the juvenile delinquency angle |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThink of writer-director Waters as the Frank Capra of an alternate universe and this film as his genially twisted version of "It's a Wonderful Life," and you'll begin to understand. |
| Hartford CourantMalcolm JohnsonToo soon though, this rise-and-fall-and- rise saga of an obsessed young photographer begins to sag into a one-note refrain. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumWaters builds to a didactic message that he underlines with Disney-esque dream dust (in various colors), as if to protect his sincerity with the disclaimer of self-mockery. |
| Film ThreatJ.D. LaFranceSure, it's lighthearted fare, but that doesn't make it any less of a good film. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittWaters fills the movie with his usual touches of outrageously bad taste, but beneath the sophomoric shocks his story has a serious message about self-absorbed artists who care more about their own careers than the privacy of the people around them. |
| The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsIt's a winning comedy, though some of Pecker's jokes inspire silence and some scenes are awkwardly staged. |