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Sunshine Cleaning
15 Feature

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Run time: 1 hour 42 minutes
Rental release: 09 Nov 2009
Main languages: English
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  • 3 stars out of 5  

    By Tom Charity from LOVEFiLM

    Comedy/Drama about two sisters that set up a crime scene clean-up business to make ends meet, while building on their relationship as sisters.

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  • superb.............................

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By williamsgwynfa (627 reviews) from gwaenysgor , 04 Jun 2009

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    [Highly rated reviewer]

    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 !
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  • Light Clean

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By buffyrules (335 reviews) from southend on sea , 24 Mar 2013
    Just a little too light all round and not cohesive enough when it needed to be. Well filmed though and not overly stylistic. Acting was of good standard but felt like the whole film was restricted by a lack of direction or smooth editing.
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  • Surprisingly good!

    Rated - 3.5 stars  
    By devmountain (7 reviews) , 10 Dec 2012

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    Funny, upbeat and slightly disturbing - just perfect. This film surpassed my expectations and left me with a bit more world knowledge. Definitely worth an investment of a couple of hours :-)
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  • What a mess!

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By a customer , 13 Nov 2012
    Two sisters, one with a child and the other living with her Dad after their Mum died, both have dead-end jobs.

    An opportunity arises for them to start up a crime scene clean-up company even though neither has done this type of work before.

    The film follows their job and the relationship between the 2 sisters and other people in their livesn
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  • Nearly very good

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By bdaahs (9 reviews) , 29 Mar 2012
    Well cast and well acted but has the feel of being edited too ruthlessly - it actually needed to be longer. As a result, the film has many under-devloped plot threads and the teary-eyed emotional moments are too concentrated. The excellent cast drag it through though and its still enjoyable. I just feel the best of this movie is lying on the cutting room floor.
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  • Misses a spot

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By mj55 (96 reviews) , 26 Mar 2012
    Enjoyable and yet unsatisfying. This feels like a nice idea that doesn't end up going anywhere. I guess I was expecting some more comedy or drama but actually it just meanders along, allowing you to get to know the characters a little before running out of cleaning fluid. It does help that most of the characters are flawed in a mildly annoying way - but maybe that's the point. Nobody here is perfect but see how they cope anyway.
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