Sunshine Cleaning is for the most part drama with comedic moments thrown in here and there. Sometimes it manages both at the same time.
Amy Adams gives a very funny, very genuine performance as a single mother, tired of working a dead end job, who on the advice of her lover(and married man with children) decides to "impede" on the world of crime scene cleaning.
She enlists the help of her sister, who would rather be sleeping.
The funniest (and most twisted) parts of the movie are when the sisters are cleaning "bodily fluids" and disposing of things like a matress, or cleaning out trash filled with maggots. This is when the movie hits its high point. It becomes fun and heartbreaking all at the same time to see the sisters bicker, talk, love and hate each other.
Some subplots are never wrapped up. One big subplot involving a woman Norah (Emily Blunt) has tracked down after finding a picture of her is never fully resolved and pretty much ignored after Norah tells her about the picture.
When it works, it is firing on all pistons. The final scenes of the sisters confrontations are touching and the ultimate dealing of their mothers death is very moving.
This is worth seeing if you are lucky enough to be in a city where it is showing.
A-
Amy Adams gives a very funny, very genuine performance as a single mother, tired of working a dead end job, who on the advice of her lover(and married man with children) decides to "impede" on the world of crime scene cleaning.
She enlists the help of her sister, who would rather be sleeping.
The funniest (and most twisted) parts of the movie are when the sisters are cleaning "bodily fluids" and disposing of things like a matress, or cleaning out trash filled with maggots. This is when the movie hits its high point. It becomes fun and heartbreaking all at the same time to see the sisters bicker, talk, love and hate each other.
Some subplots are never wrapped up. One big subplot involving a woman Norah (Emily Blunt) has tracked down after finding a picture of her is never fully resolved and pretty much ignored after Norah tells her about the picture.
When it works, it is firing on all pistons. The final scenes of the sisters confrontations are touching and the ultimate dealing of their mothers death is very moving.
This is worth seeing if you are lucky enough to be in a city where it is showing.
A-
