Edward Furlong plays a sweet Baltimore based teen in one of John Water's best films. He goes around with his thriftshop camera getting whatever weird shots he can get (his family members, neighbours smirking, yawning, sticking fingers, suggestive shaped fruits in the supermarket and so on) when a New York art dealer played by Lili Taylor passes through the burger-bar where he is showing his developed pics and promptly wants to buy the lot!
The film follows he hialrious misadventures of the fallout from the townsfolk and his family as he gets richer and sells more pics. Though he stays the same sweet little boy, soon people start turning against him, feeling that their lifestyle is being humiliated, and his bad-tempered girlfriend (hilariously played by Christina Ricci) REALLY starts losing it. Wose, his art dealer seems to fancy him. How can he keep going as his world gets crazier.
'Pecker' is Waters's next most accessible film after the mild 'Shampoo', though there's plenty of his trademark vulgarity, crassness and fruity language on tap, and it's all hugely funny. Much of it's quotable and it even has a nice happy ending.
John Waters will never make another film like this, or his great masterpiece 'Serial Mom', and though his 1st film of the New Millennium 'Cecil B Demented' was almost as good, his 2nd best moment, and dare I say innocently charming moment, is this film.