In his latest satire, Waters contrasts the pretensions of the New York City art world with the quirky realities of working-class life in Baltimore. She diligently runs a local Laundromat, where she's known as the Baltimore Stain Queen.
Pecker snaps away with total innocence.
She corrals Pecker for a big-time gallery show and lands him on the cover of art magazines. But it all becomes too much for the naive Pecker and his oddball collection of friends and family. But it's easily the director's most accessible, entertaining work since Hairspray . In a season when There's Something About Mary rubs our faces in sick humor, Waters shows that you can get much more mileage by simply tickling the noses of viewers. Waters, the delightfully goofy Furlong and the capable supporting cast wonderfully sugarcoat the film's sure-fire sedition.