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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Best movie ever!

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric, Bob Dylanesque plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom.For me, this may be Peter Weir's first really strong work. "Cars That Ate Paris" didn't resonate with me. I love "Picnic at Hanging Rock", but I assume it is very divisive -- the film is not for the general film-goer. But "Plumber" is very much a modern thriller, and in many ways very American. Aside from some accents, the story could have taken place anywhere in the English-speaking world.Others have noted how it can be seen as a precursor to "The Cable Guy". I can see that, and don't know if it's intentional or not. But I will say "Plumber" is more successful, at least for me. Jim Carrey's character was too dark, and ultimately turned me off to that film. Here, the plumber is creepy but never so dark that the comedy is forgotten.

'The Plumber' is an excellent movie.There have been other films about outsiders encroaching on a household and attempting to take over - but none (as in 'The Plumber') where the other characters are so oblivious to what is actually happening: 'The Servant' 1963 - Dirk Bogarde - wherein a manservant takes over the house and 'Ring Once for Death' part of the 70's 'Thriller' Compendium - (created by Brian Clemens ) starring Nyree Dawn Porter - wherein her manservant tries to poison her and also take over . But 'The Plumber' eclipses both of these in its complexities and the various layers/elements to the film. There is the 'mystery' element: When Max enters the lift to go to Jill's apartment his hand hovers over several buttons in the lift before resting on the one which leads him to Jill's apartment and then calls her 'Jilly' without ever being introduced. There is also the mystery as to the plumber's intentions: "He's really very sweet" says friend Meg. "He's really very cunning " replies Jill. There is a disturbing sound of wind encircling the Uni. apartment block - whenever it is viewed - emitting an instantaneous sense of menace. No wonder that Peter Weir added the cheerful restaurant scene with the Italian music - as a foil to the 'evil' - towards the climax of the film. There is the fact that the other characters in the film - no matter how close to 'Jilly' as the plumber calls her - don't seem to have an idea as to what is going on and how the plumber's presence/actions have affected Jill. In fact, Max - the plumber - seems to work at getting her husband / friend 'on side' by chatting to them or fixing their cars - perhaps to ingratiate himself because of what he sees as 'class' differences - very obvious when Jill - now exasperated - picks him up on misusing grammar.There is the 'men vs women' aspect of the film - in addition to Max - the plumber's relationship with Jill - we have the man aggressively watching the women performing their yoga, and admonishing them that other people need to use the hall. Add to the plot the revolting story which Meg tells Jill about a woman entering someone's home to use the bathroom , and the lady finding that it is really a man in drag. There is the subject matter about which Jill is writing her thesis - her experiences with the 'Bitu' man with whom Jill had interactions in New Guineu - and the intermittent sighting of the Bitu man during the movie via the artifacts and pictures in the flat.A humorous sideline of the film - is the overseas visitors' dinner to sight her husband's nutritionist work - and how one of them - hilariously - gets trapped under the bathroom rubble. Brian (the husband) is doubtful about getting a post in Geneva - but after the dinner - is successful - which he irronically puts down to 'collapsing bathrooms and cognac.' I believe that Jill gets rid of the plumber in the same way that she dispensed with the Bitu man - by use of cunning, and I believe that the ending - in which Jill is looking down at the plumber whilst he screams "You bitch- you set me up" - New Guinea drums ablazing- is near to perfect. A wonderful little gem of a film which doesn't give you answers - but makes you think.

Surprisingly, I think this may be the worst film I have ever sat through. It is not a horror film, although I do happen to have a horror of things going wrong with water supplies, so I could have well been made to feel petrified under different circumstances. It is not a thriller because it is so lacking in anything interesting for me to be thrilled about. It is not a comedy because it is not funny. What it is, is a very pretentious waste of an hour and a quarter. Unconvincing is the word here. Of course in almost every film there are moments where you are inclined to scream at the screen to encourage the character to do this or do that to avoid catastrophe. Here the lead does nothing sensible at any point during the whole of the film and the plumber who is very annoying indeed comes off as being not quite as silly as her. As for the ending……I despair!

Hearing about this great little film from many people, I spent tireless hours on retail sites tracking a VHS copy down. Finally I caught a cheap copy on Half.com and it came several days later, (cut to one month later, when Weir's "Cars that Ate Paris" debuted on easily-accessible DVD format with "The Plumber" as a double feature. Go figure.) But I sat down to watch it and proceeded to laugh for quite some time.The story is basically about this Aussie anthropologist studying Aboriginal tribes as her boring nutritionist husband is constantly talking shop. She's constantly left to her solitude and values her privacy, which makes it all the more irritating when a strange plumber invades her life. Somewhat threatening and somewhat a misunderstood doof, this plumber spends hours holed up in her bathroom doing nothing but lounging around, hammering shower tiles, writing folk songs and ripping pipes from the walls.It's a precursor to "The Cable Guy," but don't let that discourage you, (I liked "Cable Guy" myself). It's funny as hell and has a great ending. I'll even forgive it for the nutritionist's ponderous subplot that goes nowhere. It's only 79 minutes--whaddaya got to lose?Movie: A