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Super Sucker
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R,1hr 31min
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January 24, 2003
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Purple Rose Films
Synopsis: 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, ... Full Synopsis
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As a writer, Jeff Daniels obviously did his homework for Super Sucker. He masterfully portrays the world of door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen, and finds just the right mixture of unctuous, desperate, and likable in Fred Barlow to make him a believable salesperson. For its first 20 minutes, the film works as a comedy of manners. Sadly the film takes too long to get to the big joke, that Barlow and ... Full Review
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