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Sunshine Cleaning (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 3

Fresh: 3

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Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Synopsis: With a spirit and charm as seductive as its stars, Sunshine Cleaning is a delightful comedic drama that offers a distinctive and authentic take on the story of two people striving to better their lives. Expertly conceived and executed by... With a spirit and charm as seductive as its stars, Sunshine Cleaning is a delightful comedic drama that offers a distinctive and authentic take on the story of two people striving to better their lives. Expertly conceived and executed by New Zealand native Christine Jeffs, Sunshine Cleaning is fueled by the enormous appeal of Amy Adams and Emily Blunt as two sisters who, in their effort to escape the malaise and general shabbiness of their day-to-day existence, undertake a very specialized business: cleaning up the blood and body parts at various crime scenes and suicide sites. Like any enterprise in this modern world, the "biohazard removal business" entails regulations and practices that two basically unsophisticated people need to learn. And coming, as they do, from a family whose parents prepared them for little—a mother who departed early and a father (played by the wonderful Alan Arkin) whose constant search for get-rich-quick schemes avails them little that's tangible—only makes things more complicated. This is a classic American tale, both in the sisters' quest for social mobility and their relentless pursuit of individual dreams. Sunshine Cleaning is delightful independent filmmaking that depicts the desires of ordinary people in an extraordinary way. --© Sundance Film Festival [More]

Starring: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn, Alan Arkin

Starring: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn, Alan Arkin, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Eric Christian Olsen, Clifton Collins

Director: Christine Jeffs

Director: Christine Jeffs

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Despite good acting from the charming, cast-against-type Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, director Christine Jeffs stumbles with finding the right balance between the darkly comic and the conventional melodramatic elements of her siblings tale.

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02/19/08
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Sunshine Cleaning is cute and lovable, well worth seeing once it finally gets around to hitting theaters.

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01/22/08
Joshua Tyler
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Forces comparison to its wildly successful predecessor [Little Miss Sunshine] and comes up short in all departments.

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