Don’t let the title scare you off or, in some cases, excite you. It’s a harmless little movie. Almost.Edward Furlong plays the lead role of Pecker, who gets his nickname from his habit of picking at his food. Pecker’s hobby is photography. He is constantly taking pictures of his normal, everyday life in Baltimore, with a broken-down camera from his mother’s thrift shop.Most of Pecker’s photographs are of his friends and slightly dysfunctional family: his best friend Matt (Brendan Sexton III), who calls himself “the best thief in Baltimore;” his girlfriend Shelley (Christina Ricci), who works at a laundromat; Little Chrissy (Lauren Hulsey), Pecker’s younger sister who has a sugar-dependency problem; and his grandmother Memama (Jean Schertler), an avid Catholic who thinks her puppet of the Virgin Mary talks to her.When Pecker shows his photographs at a small show in a sandwich shop, his life is dramatically changed when Rorey (Lili Taylor), an art dealer from New York, loves his work. She books him for a show at her gallery, and all hell breaks loose!Pecker’s photos are a new sensation! Everyone loves his art, especially the “art crowd” in New York. His photos are sold for hundreds, even thousands of dollars. Overnight, Pecker is transformed into a celebrity, and his friends and family are also thrown into the limelight.The problems begin when Pecker becomes famous. His family is robbed, Matt can no longer shoplift, and Shelley does not understand Pecker’s art. (But that changes after an encounter in a voting booth.)This dark comedy, directed by John Waters, tells a tale of the frenzy that occurs during and after media attention. Sometimes it’s a little bizarre, but it’s definitely worth seeing. Furlong has grown up a bit since “Terminator 2,” but his voice has yet to change. He gives a good performance, though, along with the very talented Christina Ricci. Although she is only 17 years old, her performance is stunning.