Overview
A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.
This movie came highly recommended by several people whose tastes in movies seem to reflect my own. The film did not disappoint. On the surface the movie might seem to be standard Hollywood fare – two sisters learn important life lessons while struggling through a hard life. Sounds familiar, right?
But the film was anything but the traditional crap that we’ve come to expect from Hollywood. The film did not need to tie up all of the loose ends. When the sisters had a falling out there wasn’t a teary makeup session. When the lead realized that she did not need to impress her high school friends and that she could not relate to them there wasn’t a “girl power” moment. Everything in the movie, right down to the 90 minute run-time, is pleasantly understated.
The funny thing is that I didn’t see it at first. After the movie ended I swished it around in my head for a few minutes. I enjoyed the movie but it seemed like it could have been even better. It was then that I realized that I too had fallen into the same trap that I often speak of: being conditioned to expect what we usually get in these films. While it was by no means a masterpiece the director got it right in the end.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Sunshine Cleaning
Movie title: Sunshine Cleaning
Movie description: A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.
Date published: 2009-10-10
Director(s): Christine Jeffs
Actor(s): Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Jason Spevack, Steve Zahn, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Clifton Collins Jr., Eric Christian Olsen, Paul Dooley, Kevin Chapman, Judith Jones, Amy Redford, Susie Yip, Lois Geary, McKenna Hutton, Mason Frank, Amber Midthunder, Angelique Midthunder, Vic Browder, Ivan Brutsche, Kathy Lamkin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
My Review
This movie came highly recommended by several people whose tastes in movies seem to reflect my own. The film did not disappoint. On the surface the movie might seem to be standard Hollywood fare – two sisters learn important life lessons while struggling through a hard life. Sounds familiar, right?
But the film was anything but the traditional crap that we’ve come to expect from Hollywood. The film did not need to tie up all of the loose ends. When the sisters had a falling out there wasn’t a teary makeup session. When the lead realized that she did not need to impress her high school friends and that she could not relate to them there wasn’t a “girl power” moment. Everything in the movie, right down to the 90 minute run-time, is pleasantly understated.
The funny thing is that I didn’t see it at first. After the movie ended I swished it around in my head for a few minutes. I enjoyed the movie but it seemed like it could have been even better. It was then that I realized that I too had fallen into the same trap that I often speak of: being conditioned to expect what we usually get in these films. While it was by no means a masterpiece the director got it right in the end.
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My Review - 8.25/10
8.25/10