Edward Furlong (still best known as the kid in Terminator 2) amuses as a Baltimore burger boy who attracts the attention of the New York art world with his saucy photos of local life. Director John Waters, once the bad boy of independent movies, turns in a surprisingly amiable and gently amusing portrait of life in his home town, but the satire on the characters and pretensions of the art scene is just as surprisingly stale and unfunny. With its hit-and-miss humour, these are shallow, unmuddied Waters this time, with Furlong the best thing in it by a mile, despite a formidable female supporting cast that includes Christina Ricci, Lili Taylor and Martha Plimpton.