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Super Sucker (2003)

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Reviews Counted:14

Fresh:4

Rotten:10

Average Rating:4.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Comedies

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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Simply put, this movie about sweeper salesmen is a comedic vacuum.

Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema | comment Comment
07/12/06
Mark Pfeiffer
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

'Hopefully, “Super Sucker” will be Jeff Daniels final foray into directing and writing. NO MORE!!!!! NO MORE!!!!!!'

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
03/31/05
Rory L. Aronsky
Rory L. Aronsky
Film Threat
N/R

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Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
05/19/04
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
03/31/03
Film Threat

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.

Full Review Source: Nitrate Online | comment Comment
02/02/03
Dan Lybarger
Dan Lybarger
Nitrate Online

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.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
01/26/03
Blake French
Blake French
Filmcritic.com

There's only one joke in Super Sucker, but it's a good one.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
01/24/03
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Has a mad energy and proud idiocy that's impossible to deny.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
01/24/03
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News

The quirky and bizarre nature of the material would have been better suited to a director more nimble with absurd, broad and physical humor.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
01/24/03
Jon Alon Walz
Jon Alon Walz
Boxoffice Magazine
N/R

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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
01/24/03
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
01/24/03
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press

A terrible movie.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/24/03
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

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.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
01/23/03
Jackie Loohauis
Jackie Loohauis
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

a lively tale about competition, commerce, community values and, oh yeah, gross misuse of vacuum cleaner attachments.

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
01/23/03
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
01/23/03
Allison Benedikt
Allison Benedikt
Chicago Tribune

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.

Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | comment Comment
01/23/03
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
 
 
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