Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 01/24/2003(USA
Release Date: 08/10/2003
Dubbed: English
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Adult Humor, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Monarch Video
Clean carpets and dirty minds find a common ground in this
comedy written, directed, produced, and distributed by leading man
Jeff Daniels.
Fred Barlow (
Daniels) is a hapless door-to-door salesman who scrapes together a living selling and distributing the Super Sucker Home Cleaning System, a deluxe vacuum cleaning unit, in the small Michigan community of Johnson City. While
Barlow and his dedicated but inept staff believe in their product, they don't have much luck in actually moving the merchandise, and hotshot fellow distributor
Winslow Schnaebelt (
Harve Presnell) is eager to take over
Barlow's territory. Super Sucker prexy
Cy Suckerton II (
John Lepard), tired of the squabbling between
Barlow and
Schnaebelt, decides to settle the matter once and for all with a contest -- whoever sells the most vacuums in 30 days will have all of Johnson City to themselves.
Barlow and his right-hand-man
Howard Butterworth (
Matt Letscher) try to gear up their staff to make an all-out sales assault on Johnson City, but it turns out that the deciding factor may well be the "Housewife's Little Helper," a little-used vacuum attachment for "cleaning those hard-to-reach places" which
Barlow discovers has a surprising use that has nothing to do with sweeping the rug.
Super Sucker also features a guest appearance by
Dawn Wells (
Mary Ann from
Gilligan's Island) as the official Super Sucker spokesperson; longtime
Bob Seger sideman
Alto Reed contributed to the film's soundtrack.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
