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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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Reviews for Super Sucker

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Mark Pfeiffer

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 12 2006 09:05 AM

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1.5/5

Rory L. Aronsky

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 31 2005 04:13 PM

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Colin Covert

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 19 2004 08:15 AM

Minneapolis Star Tribune

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1.5/5

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 31 2003 05:07 PM

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Dan Lybarger

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: | comment Comment | Feb., 02 2003 02:22 PM

Nitrate Online

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2/5

Blake French

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 26 2003 05:46 AM

Filmcritic.com

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2.5/4

Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 24 2003 04:07 PM

St. Paul Pioneer Press

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B-

Tom Long

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 24 2003 04:00 PM

Detroit News

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1.5/5

Jon Alon Walz

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 24 2003 03:57 PM

Boxoffice Magazine

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 24 2003 08:18 AM

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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2/4

John Monaghan

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 24 2003 08:18 AM

Detroit Free Press

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1/4

Jonathan Rosenbaum

A terrible movie.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 24 2003 08:18 AM

Chicago Reader

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2.5/4

Jackie Loohauis

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 23 2003 10:00 PM

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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James Sanford

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 23 2003 04:01 PM

Kalamazoo Gazette

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1/4

Allison Benedikt

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 23 2003 01:05 PM

Chicago Tribune

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2.5/4

Rob Thomas

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: | comment Comment | Jan., 23 2003 08:41 AM

Capital Times (Madison, WI)

 
 
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