Sunshine Cleaning Details

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[Highly rated reviewer]

superb.............................

This film comedy drama is superb and stars Amy Adams, Emily Blunt and Alan Arkin.

Former high school cheerleading captain Rose Lorkowski (played by Amy Adams) is a thirty-something single mother who cleans houses for a living.

Wanting to send her trouble-making 8 year old son Oscar (played by Jason Spevack) to a private school, Rose decides to take her married lover's advice and get into the 'lucrative' business of crime scene cleanup.

Rose convinces her disillusioned, underachieving sister Norah (played by Emily Blunt) to join her in the enterprise, which she calls 'Sunshine Cleaning.'

Norah stills lives at home with their dad Joe(played by Alan Arkin) a salesman with a lifelong history of ill-fated get rich quick schemes.

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 are tested and Rose and Norah face hard challenges as they strive to improve their lives.

Well worth watching !

[Highly rated reviewer]

Excellent performances all round

Basiclly, this is about two sisters and their father who in their seperate ways, and despite their best efforts, are all going nowhere. One of the sisters, Amy Adams, is a house cleaner/maid who is having an affair with a married cop. He mentions how much money it costs to bring in a specialist who cleans up after there's been a murder or 'messy' death so (without spoiling the rest of the story), Adams takes up this idea with her sister ......

Well worth watching with excellent performances throughout and a quirky but good story too. Like Little Miss Sunshine, you really get drawn into this family and really want them to all 'come through'. Look out for the one armed shop assistant from the industrial cleaning shop - again, subtle but excellent performance. Might not won't do well commercially but definitely one to watch.