Super Sucker/Daft as a Brush (2002)

I was going on about so-called "high concept" movies a few days ago and here is one that stinks even higher than "Envy" -- or to use the American version of its title, one that definitely sucks.  Now Jeff Daniels may not be one of the greatest of Hollywood actors, but he has certainly appeared in a number of very acceptable films and he was even funnier than Jim Carrey in "Dumb and Dumber", so when the DVD cover claimed that this movie was his funniest one since then, I was tempted.  Big mistake!  He plays the team leader of a group of door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen whose team is being outsold by the rival team led by Harve Presnell.  When Daniels discovers the use that his wife has been making of their own vacuum at home, he finds the key to a successful sales campaign.  To put no finer point upon it, he designs an attachment for frustrated housewives (and nuns!) to pleasure themselves...until the American Association for Abuse of Household Appliances puts a stop to his pitch.  My God, I thought to myself, he must have been desperate to do this film.  Then I saw the end credits: Written by Jeff Daniels, Directed by Jeff Daniels.  So now you know!

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