Keep your pecker up! (Pecker (DVD))

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Product:	Pecker (DVD)
Date:	29/03/01 (29 review reads)
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Advantages: Cut above the rest of the guff

Disadvantages: More water under his bridge

Baltimore boy Pecker likes nothing better than taking pictures of his friends and neighbors in a small suburb where he hangs out with his kleptomaniac best mate.

They like nothing better than to play Shops and extras which involves putting inappropriate items in unsuspecting shoppers trolleys. Pretty boys get Preparation H slipped in their carts and late thirties divorcees get sexually shaped vegetables so Pecker can get a reaction at the tills by the embarrassed customers for his picture portfolio.

His family are a menagerie of characters who live in the same house, including the elderly grandma who has a ventriloquist Virgin Mary and a sugar obsessed young daughter who cant get enough.
His sister has a job at a gay bar where she has learnt the knack off spotting a “Mary”(gay guy) and his dad runs the bar across the road so he’s never short of subjects.

Everyone knows him around town as he’s always snapping away when they least expect it. He decides to use his grumpy burger bar boss (aren’t they all) diner to exhibit his work.

His girlfriend who works in the local Laundromat is his favorite model. He has a host of other wacky locals to grab his cheap cameras attention which his mum got from her thrift store to keep him occupied.

The various subjects of his art are drawn to the diner to see themselves in his art. Also at his show is a visiting art director from New York who was visiting the local museum.

She’s very attracted to him and his art and invites him to show his collection in Manhatten.Pecker sells his first picture of an out of focus beaver to her and we are not talking about the Canadian lakes here!.
The sophisticated arty types take to the young 17-year-olds work and the whole small town exodus heads to the big apple. But the power of the art is in the subjects and their “lack”of sophistication, ie the knobs are taking the p****s out of the phil
istines.

As the middle class pretentious air and clear glasses arty types swallow up the small towners, they soon become aware that they are more on show than Peckers photos.
on their return to Baltimore they quickly become aware that the joke may have been on them and their unwelcome celebrity says more about them and their lives than any picture can.

Pecker is quickly finding that the people he once called friends, no longer want his lens poking into there insignificant lives. As Pecker loses his touch whilst being schmoosed by the big city, he wonders why he ever got involved in this and just wants his old life back.
The welfare want a word about their sugar obssessed daughter and quickly put her on a drug as shes diagnosed with attention disorder deficit.
Three weeks later shes cured and into vegatables in a big way.
Mum just wants to get home and carrying on selling flame proof clothing to down and outs.

Pecker looks like he’s going places in the photographer’s world when he’s invited to an even bigger show at New York’s prestigious Whitmore gallery. But our small town nice guy is fed up with the erroneous b*******t and decides to turn the tables on the pretentious art world.
The little kid(probably the directors daughter judging on the acting!)is now happily snorting peas.

This is a nice genial comedy of small town gullibles versus the big town sophisticates and is weaved with clever society observation and humor with excellent reflective character study of the way we interact to and seek routine for safety.

As the motto on the billboards says”Happiness is making other people smile”. Very well made and enjoyable film that’s way above the moronic Road Trip guff and at least makes you think with your laughter.

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