Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Sunshine Cleaning review

I managed to catch this little known movie a few weeks ago. My wife wanted to watch it, and I had never heard of it but I'm willing to give anything a try. It's an interesting movie about a cleaning lady named Rose Lorkowski, played by Amy Adams, who struggles to support herself and her child on her meager earnings. She learns of a cleaning industry that's built on cleaning the aftermath of gruesome murders from a married cop that she's having an affair with and tries her hand at that, enlisting the help of her loser sister (played by Emily Blunt). Rose becomes successful at it, but of course being somewhat of a chick flick this film delves further than just the trial and tribulations of cleaning murder scenes. Rose deals with her life and how to improve it, coming to terms with her affair with a married man and her constant justification at the perceived lack of success in her life by the women she had gone to high school with years ago. She still tries to show them that she's a success in her own right, but of course she learns that she should frickin' grow up and take stock of real priorities, like raising her son.



I liked this movie. I thought it was funny that this was made by the same people who did Little Miss Sunshine. I guess they're trying to corner the market on movies with the word "Sunshine" in them and that have Alan Arkin playing a curmudgeonly grandfather. His role is virtually identical to the one he played in Little Miss Sunshine, but he's still a bright spot in the film. All in all, it's not bad. It's good to watch maybe once or twice but, in my case, it won't have alot of resonance with me. There isn't alot here that's memorable except perhaps the concept of everyday cleaners trying to clean crime scenes. Still, it's admirably original.
I give it 3/5 stars.


Till next time, human germ!
Deceptisean

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