John Waters Collection Volume 1, The - Hairspray/ Pecker

Includes two John Waters classics. HAIRSPRAY: It's 1962 and Tracy Turnblad has the biggest bouffant on the block. She also has all the right moves to be on the local dance show and win the crown of Miss Auto Show, as well as the ex-steady of the snooty reigning princess, Amber. But Amber is not too happy and has other plans for Tracy. PECKER: The winning 10th feature from John Waters straddles a fine and wisely chosen line between the flaunted vulgarity of his early works and the sloppy kindheartedness of his later films. Set, as usual, in Baltimore, Edward Furlong (T2) stars as 'Pecker', a sweet-natured young fellow who gleefully fills his days photographing his surroundings with a cheap secondhand camera. Egging him on are his Virgin Mary-obsessed grandmother, his kleptomaniac best friend (Sexton III), and his girlfriend (Ricci), who runs a laundromat with an iron fist. However, when his works are 'discovered' by a slumming NYC art dealer (Taylor), Pecker's simple life and family are turned upside do...