good back-story, and good acting

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The Plumber is more than a movie about a plumber, although he (portrayed by Australian-Latvian actor Ivar Kants with much relish) is a central character along with the academic couple. The tension/psychological warfare is between the plumber and one-half of the academic couple, played by Judy Morris. Robert Coleby, the other half, seems quite oblivious to what's going on around him.The movie takes an honest look at the class tensions here, especially in the town and gown aspect. When you think about it, it's interesting to ponder the separation of classes, like would say a plumber marry an architect? Maybe. I would like to know where the university housing for the academic couple was filmed. It really shows the times.I'm not sure why the plumber targets the Judy Morris character, and maybe we'll never know. The ending was a bit too contrived and too simplistic. I think the plumber's legal aid lawyer would have a field day poking holes through the prosecution's case again him for theft. Perhaps there should be a sequel called Son of Plumber starring a distant relative of say Christopher Plummer as this would be a nice play on words I guess.

Awful, awful film. It scores 6.6 on the IMDb. WHY?????????? It's terrible. And it's so dated too.The Plumber is supposed to be a horror. It isn't. Basically it's about an annoying plumber who messes up each job he goes to. In particular he visits a lady every day while her husband is a work.She's doing her chores; he's in the bathroom. And that is supposed to be a horror movie??? It would be a comedy if there was anything to laugh at.No scares. No terror. No nothing except a very poor script and awful acting.As someone mentioned it's like the outtakes from some horrific Aussie soap opera like Prisoner Cell Block H, all stitched together.Down-thumb this review all you like, it's still a horrific 1/10.

I rented this because it was categorized as horror in the video store. I never knew how boring or how wrongly categorized a movie could be!!! A lady basically sits in her apartment the whole movie, while this"plumber" works in her bathroom. The lady is very dense- the very end is absolutely retarded and I don't know what it meant- it was so vague and unexplained to me. If one is looking for horror, action, suspense, blood, and swearing- this movie is absolutely none of those.The plumber himself is not even scary- like I was watching a awful soap-opera!!! Just stands around "fixing" her bathroom.Like I said, put this in the road, and run the car over it!!!!

This is an excellent movie. On first viewing it appears simple, but upon subsequent viewings this movie takes on an interesting twist: was the woman right to do what she did, or was she overreacting? Great movie.