Sunshine Cleaning
Sunshine Cleaning
#1Sunshine Cleaning
Posted: 3/28/09 at 3:05am
Sunshine Cleaning is brought to you by the producers who gave us Little Miss Sunshine and it totally has the same feel: There's joy, there's sadness, but over all it's a moving experience for all who watch it. In Little Miss Sunshine, the story centered around a dysfunctional family traveling in a van to make the youngest daughter's dream of being a beauty pageant contestant a reality. Sunshine Cleaning focuses on a dysfunctional family, once again Alan Arkin is the crazy grandpa with a precocious child to charm and take care of while the older members of the family are falling apart. Amy Adams plays Rose, a maid whose prime was high school and this has come to pass, whilst her sister Norah, played by Emily Blunt floats from job to job, and fails over and over. Whilst having a tryst with her married former high school boyfriend-turned cop, who recommends she get into bio-hazard removal from crime scenes after having dealing with a case at the beginning of the film. With spunk and gumption, Rose convinces her younger sister to help her and on they go. The road is bumpy and soon emotions begin to plague the youngest sister who still hasn't coped with their mother's suicide. There to aid the sisters is Winston, a one-armed cleaning who is sweet and kind to Rose and helps her along the way to become certified for bio-hazard removal. Whilst his daughters are off doing all the removing, Arkin's Joe is a struggling fly-by-night salesmen who charms his grandson Oscar, who is different and thus removed from school for being so.
The movie is cathartic, sweet and really benefits from the wonderful performances by Adams, Arkin and Blunt. Adams de-glams from playing high profile roles in Enchanted and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, to a lowly former high school cheerleader turned maid who is sweet and yet troubled because she doesn't know how to deal with her "special" child, her lingering feelings for her now married-lover her crazy family, and realizes her glory days are far behind her. Blunt goes from being the ice-princess in The Devil Wears Prada to a mood, sarcastic, damaged young woman searching for answers in a world that makes no sense. Blunt's character takes one case to heart and tries to connect with the daughter of one of the women who they clean up [played by Mary Lynn Rajskub]. The ending is a kind of a let down, but the film still stands as a really fabulous movie. It has humor [one scene in which little Oscar asks "What's a bastard?" brings a laugh] amongst other things. Adams and Blunt give superb performances and hopefully come award time, they get some recognition for these complexly dark, and yet sunny roles.
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Updated On: 3/28/09 at 03:05 AM
#2re: Sunshine Cleaning
Posted: 3/28/09 at 10:35amThis sounds absolutely terrible.
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#2re: Sunshine Cleaning
Posted: 3/28/09 at 12:44pmEmily Blunt was on Ellen the other day and they showed some clips. I couldn't decide what I thought of it.
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#3re: Sunshine Cleaning
Posted: 3/28/09 at 1:50pm
The movie has been in "limbo" for quite a while. I'm pretty sure it was finished by award time (you can tell the movie was done with the intention of being the next LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE or JUNO) but the powers that be decided not to release it. It'll probably end up in the theatres on a random weekend, make no money, and fizzle away as quickly as it came.
I adore Emily Blunt, she's a fantastic actress, but can she start making good movies please?
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#4re: Sunshine Cleaning
Posted: 3/28/09 at 11:09pmI saw it and I really enjoyed it. Amy Adams was wonderful, and Emily Blunt and Alan Arkin both gave great performances. It wasn't funny like Little Miss. Sunshine, it was a more of a drama. I thought it was fantastic.
Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
#5re: Sunshine Cleaning
Posted: 3/28/09 at 11:20pmI saw it last weekend and really loved it. I saw the trailer months ago and was excited for it. Agreed it is much more of a drama... but the cast is great.
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#6re: Sunshine Cleaning
Posted: 5/11/09 at 11:27pm
I saw the film today and I don't know how I feel about it. Here were my immediate thoughts after seeing the film:
I liked it.
I wanted it to be more profound, and yet:
I think it was intentionally weak in its resolution and denouement.
I wanted a better closure. I CRAVED a better closure. And yet, I was somewhat content. I am content. I feel very mixed.
I liked it. I wish I loved it.
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#8re: Sunshine Cleaning
Posted: 5/12/09 at 1:33pm
I liked it. I wish I loved it.
I couldn't agree more. The plot was extremely clever, but could have been executed better.
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#9re: Sunshine Cleaning
Posted: 5/12/09 at 2:27pmI liked it. But it was slow and predictable. I mean, when she climbed up under the railroad tracks I said, oh,God. She's gonna hoot and scream...and then she's gonna sob.And that's exactly what happened.
#10re: Sunshine Cleaning
Posted: 5/12/09 at 2:41pmIt would have been more interesting if she climbed up too high and the train hit her. Now THAT would have been unpredictable.
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