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Sunshine Cleaning |  | Director: Christine Jeffs
Actors: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Jason Spevack, Steve Zahn
Studio: Overture Films
Category: Movie
Buy New: $3.99
as of 11/22/2009 21:02 MST details
Seller: Amazon Video On Demand
Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 40
Genre: Comedy
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 92 Minutes
ASIN: B002MQU2JE
Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 2009
Release Date: November 16, 2009 (New: This Week)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Synopsis:
Former high school cheerleading captain Rose Lorkowski (Academy-Award?-winner Amy Adams) is a thirty-something single mother who cleans houses for a living. Wanting to send her trouble-making eight-year-old son Oscar to a private school, Rose decides to take her married lover's (Steve Zahn) advice and get into the "lucrative" business of crime scene cleanup. Rose convinces her disillusioned, underachieving sister Norah (Golden-Globe?-winner Emily Blunt) who is still living at home with their dad Joe (Academy-Award?-winner Alan Arkin), to join her in the enterprise, which she calls "Sunshine Cleaning." The sisters begin to find meaning in their function to "help" in some way in the aftermath of a loss, just as the job stirs up memories of their own mother's death. Their priorities and goals tested, Rose and Norah face hard challenges as they strive to improve their lives. |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 85
 Meh independent film November 22, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:
Wearing its "quirky" heart on its sleeve and making no real secret of its debt to the other recent "sunshine" movie, Sunshine Cleaning features two talented and attractive young actresses in starring roles and a relatively quick pace but has little else to recommend it; it may have good intentions, but it's not a good movie.
2.5/4
One plot, many strands November 22, 2009
Robin Benson
You couldn't want a more dramatic start to a film than the first few minutes of Sunshine Cleaning. It occurred in the gun section of an outdoor hobby store but unfortunately I didn't think the rest of the story delivered the same excitement.
The two heroines, rather predictably life-style opposites, team up to run a crime-scene clean up company. I would have thought this would be a suitable plotline for plenty of developments but the writer and director kept spinning off minor sub-plots which just took up too much time to resolve and sort of gave up after eighty-eight minutes.
All the actors turned out a competent performance but without much of a solid story to work with there was nothing special they could do. One thing that I did find noticeable was the frequent scenes of some very minor activity that added nothing to the story and in fact could have been edited out and no one would notice.
*My DVD had an interesting bonus feature: an interview with two ladies who ran a professional crime-scene clean-up company. Turns out it was more interesting than the movie.
 Colorful melodrama November 22, 2009
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
An Albuquerque close to dysfunctional family never seems to get a break. Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) has a son (Jason Spevack) that is too smart for his own good, a father (Alan Arkin) that has all kinds of economic get rich schemes, a sister (Emily Blunt) that does not seem to be able to hold a job, a married boyfriend etc.
As circumstances, have it Rose gets and opportunity to make it big with a biohazard cleanup company, SUNSHINE CLEANING. Of course, even then she has her usual luck. With a little help, maybe one day the tide will change for her. Then again, maybe the film will end.
I have only seen the Blu-ray version and I am surprised at the lack of extras.
 Understated, Quiet Indie Drama November 18, 2009
Rustin Parr (Toronto, Canada)
"Sunshine Cleaning" is the type of a film that ranks alongside Nicole Holofcener's works on feminine drama; works that feature strong but flawed female characters that are still relatable by all audiences. With "Sunshine Cleaning", there is less humour though, the supposed comedy that the trailers have tacitly promised us prior to its release. Instead, we are presented the inner problems of the two women without painting them with a single neat stroke of characterization; they are complex characters leading very messy lives. Rose (Amy Adams) and Norah (Amy Adams), both of whom have been traumatized in many ways by their mother's suicide, explore their options in bettering their lives by virtue of working as crime scene cleaners. Their chosen career path is an ironic statement: for the first time, they want to be able to finally come into terms with the great loss of losing their mother, and even perhaps the huge empty void created by the mother herself through her suicide. Indeed, it is a grim world for both of these women. They are restless, lost and severely damaged. Their situations are emphasized by the directors simple approach: the film implores the world by its humdrum nature: unglamorous, even snail-crawlingly boring, with people working as maids, where kids are left uneducated, where suicide could seem to be the only option..."Sunshine Cleaning" is realistic, and even downright terrifying in its minimal approach in viewing life through its grey lenses. Both Amy Adams and Emily Blunt churn out great performances. This is understated, quiet drama that is delicate with sprinkles of unabrasive humour. "Sunshine Cleaning": moving, at times emotionally painful, and most of the time, radiantly beautiful.
Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin shine in "Sunshine" November 16, 2009
James C. Ward (Tuscaloosa area AL, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is what I would call a "character piece" movie...normally a movie like this will focus on one main character, but here with get three characters, two sisters and their father, and their interactions. The plot is interesting, but I found the acting and the interactions among the characters even more fun.
essentially, it shows you the struggles of a family- an unwed single mom who is trying to work and care for her child at the same time. Her younger sister, who's a bit of a slacker and doesn't have any goals in life. And their father, who is always trying to scheme to make a quick buck.
at times funny, other times sad, other times melancholy...it is a realistic movie about a financially struggling family trying to stay together in difficult times.
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