Simply put, this movie about sweeper salesmen is a comedic vacuum.
Super Sucker (2003)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:4
Rotten:10
Average Rating:4.1/10
Theatrical Release:Jan 24, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Fred Barlow (Jeff Daniels) is a door-to-door salesman peddling the "Super Sucker Home Cleaning System" which is a high-powered vacuum cleaner. Things are going well for Fred until his adversary and... Fred Barlow (Jeff Daniels) is a door-to-door salesman peddling the "Super Sucker Home Cleaning System" which is a high-powered vacuum cleaner. Things are going well for Fred until his adversary and biggest competitor, Winslow Schnaebelt (Harve Presnell), begins to outsell him. Although Fred cannot compete with Winslow's flashy sales routine, he has a secret weapon in his assistant Howard Butterworth (Matt Letscher), whose youthful charm inspires Fred to do his best. SUPER SUCKER, a tongue-in-cheek comedy, is written and directed by Jeff Daniels. [More]
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Matt Letscher, Harve Presnell, Dawn Wells
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Matt Letscher, Harve Presnell, Dawn Wells, Michael Seibert
Director: Jeff Daniels
Director: Jeff Daniels
Screenwriter: Jeff Daniels
Producer: Tom Spiroff
Studio: Purple Rose Films
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Reviews for Super Sucker
'Hopefully, “Super Sucker” will be Jeff Daniels final foray into directing and writing. NO MORE!!!!! NO MORE!!!!!!'
Writer-Director Jeff Daniels comes up with about forty-five minutes of inspired silliness, but, eventually, Super Sucker winds up being a one-joke film, though, admittedly, that joke is often funnier than it should be.
If you think you've seen every possibility for a sex comedy, then you haven't seen Super Sucker -- and thank your lucky stars for that.
The quirky and bizarre nature of the material would have been better suited to a director more nimble with absurd, broad and physical humor.
Daniels obviously loves the medium and knows how to assemble a movie, but he needs to flesh out a story that could easily have been told between beers and burps at the Escanaba hunting camp.
Daniels shows his affection for Middle America in every Super Sucker scene and he proves he knows this turf down to the barn-wood paneling of Jackson City's steakhouse.
a lively tale about competition, commerce, community values and, oh yeah, gross misuse of vacuum cleaner attachments.
Daniels turns to hackneyed stereotypes and easy plot lines, choosing to see the Midwest as a place where door-to-door salesmen rule the streets and bored housewives all lead unfulfilling cookie-cutter lives.
It’d be nice to report that “Super Sucker” is an out-and-out triumph, instead of just being an okay to pretty good comedy.
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