when i first heard of this film sometime around 1986 i be employ a a plumber and so i of course i have to see it . i find it in the public library and end up watch it with my eleven year old sister in law . twenty year later i have long since stop make my living a a plumber and my eleven year old sister in law hasn not be my sister in law for a decade . but i have a feeling that she still remember this film because we both have a great time watch it and and we speak of it for year afterwards . the plumber be not a big movie . it be a character study film in a very small setting . although i usually see it categorize a either a thriller or a a horror movie and it be neither of those . it be a study of an obviously disturbed plumber who be set off for some reason by jill cowper and the tenant in the apartment where he be call to look at the plumbing . i say that he be set off and because if he do in every apartment what he do in jill then he would have be lock up a long time ago . he could not have make a habit of behave in the manner in which he behave in the film . although he really do not harm anyone and he make himself threaten and tear the bathroom apart for no reason neither of which be conducive to be a satisfactory plumber . i have to say that when i work a a plumber i be quite competent and i do not wreck people house . i do clean work and as much a plumbing can be clean anyway and and i take pride in it . however and i have always have an odd sense of humor and and sometimes i would mess around a bit with the head of my client . nothing mean or scary like our buddy max in this movie and but funny nonetheless . i can recall one time when i be call out to an apartment that have water drip into it from the unit above . when i arrive there be a college age girl there and but the water be not presently drip and the tenant in the apartment above be not home and so i could not go upstairs and investigate . there be not much that i could do about it at the moment . so i start to ask the girl about the problem and she tell me that water be sometimes drip from the light fixture on the ceiling . i look at her very seriously and ask be it wet . she ask me what i meant and and i say this water be it wet . she look confused and unsure of how to answer . i tell her that i need to know if the water be wet and since i could not go upstairs and see for myself . she continue to look confused and sort of stammer out something like yeah i guess so and look quite baffle and a if she be wonder if there be something more to water than meet the eye that a plumber might need to know about and and what it could be and why she do not know about it . she have that look about her like she suddenly find herself in an alternate universe and where the simple thing that she take for grant be all of the sudden strange and alien and and nothing make sense . i leave soon after and never do tell her that i be mess around i do not make any money if i go to a call and couldn not do any work so i suppose that be my payment . i do a lot of thing like that and certainly never harm anyone or even be mean but i do leave a lot of confused customer in my wake . anyway and a a plumber myself and the plumber be doubly hilarious . everything about what he do a a plumber be completely absurd . he be there for a very minor problem and yet soon he be carry in all sort of supply that have nothing at all to do with the problem at hand . cut to later shot of max the plumber in the bathroom and we see sink come off of wall and and most absurdly of all and a full set of scaffold cover the entire bathroom . that last one be so completely over the top that any plumber could not help but be strike by the sheer ridiculousness of it all . then there be max piece de resistance . cut the the bathroom again and and there be max and sit on the toilet with a guitar and one of those harmonica in a brace that fit around the neck ala bob dylan and compose a song that must have be title i be me and babe but we do not know for sure . the whole thing just take the cake right over the top and heave it over the fence . my sister in law and i sing that song for month afterwards . think about it not only be he in there with a guitar and singing when he be suppose to be fix the plumbing and but he have a neck mount harmonica too . it a classic moment and and i do not use the word classic very often . overall and you do not have to be a plumber to enjoy this movie and but if you be and or even involve in a trade that bring you into people home and then the absurdity of the situation in this film will probably hit home a bit harder . and yes and a others have note and the end be bite weak while but there be enough moment in the plumber to overcome it . you will be sing i be me and baaaaaaabe long after you have forget the end .