The Super

1991

Action / Comedy

13
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 45% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 7023 7K

slum riches lighthearted admiring adoring

Director

Rod Daniel Photo
Rod Daniel

Top cast

Daniel Hagen Photo
Daniel Hagen as Construction Worker
Joe Pesci Photo
Joe Pesci as Louie Kritski
LaTanya Richardson Jackson Photo
LaTanya Richardson Jackson as Judge Smith
Carole Shelley Photo
Carole Shelley as Irene Kritski
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740.22 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
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1.38 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by boblipton 6 / 10

Black Comedy That Doesn't Quite Deliver The Goods

Vincent Gardenia (inhis last screen role) is a slumlord who taught his son, Joe Pesci their tenants are animals: collect rents and put nothing into the buildings. But the City has caught up to them, and it's one of the buildings in Pesci's name, so he is the one sentenced to occupy an apartment there and to bring it up to code. And so we meet his tenants, and they are just as much stereotyped jerks as he is. In the face of this, he has no incentive to do anything but squat in misery when Gardenia tries to put the fix in.Of course we know going in that Pesci will have a change of heart by the end, and it has to arise from somewhere: there's the welfare lawyer Madelyn Smith Osborne, whom Pesci propositions every time they speak, and 13-year-old Kenny Blank, who lives with his father and hustles in a sweet-faced manner, and gives the most endearing performance in the movie. In the meantime, Pesci is stuck with the unenviable task oif taking a thoroughly unlikeable character, having him kicked repeatedly for the audience's amusement, and still have the audience on his side as he finally reforms. Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton had managed this in a few of their features in the 1920s, but it's a tough thing to manage,, especially given that for the first time in his career, Pesci is the lead..I don;t think this movie succeeds in its ambitions, but there are certainly enough good moments to keep the audience entertained.
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Reviewed by JakeRfilmfreak 6 / 10

The best way to punish a slumlord is to make him a tenant

The Super is a 1991 comedy that centers around a slumlord who gets sentenced by a judge to live in his own dilapidated building until it's brought up to code.

This is a great comedy from the early 90's starring Joe Pesci that isn't high on the radar, but definitely should be. Pesci's performance is hilarious and with the rest of the cast bring nothing but a good time to the table. The story is creative and funny, the jokes are silly but effective, and there's no shortage of entertaining moments that will make its 86 minute run time fly by.

I've loved this movie since I was a kid, and if you haven't seen it before, I would recommend checking it out.

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