Sunshine Cleaning Movie Review
Posted on | January 25, 2010 |
Lately it feels like every other movie I watch stars Amy Adams. I’m not sure if it’s because every other movie actually DOES in fact star Amy Adams or if it’s because Netflix bought stock in her career: as soon as I finished watching Sunshine Cleaning, they suggested I watch Doubt. Starring Amy Adams.
As it turns out, I like Amy Adams, so I’m OK with this. And furthermore, I like her a lot in Sunshine Cleaning, a movie about a young single mother named Rose who starts a business cleaning up crime scenes with her loser sister (the lovely Emily Blunt). Along for the ride is her “special” son, and her kooky father, played by Alan Arkin.
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As I watched Sunshine Cleaning, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I’d seen this movie before. It was strangely reminiscent of another indie movie with the word “Sunshine” in the title, a movie that’s story focused around striving to better one crazy family’s circumstances by pursuing a seemingly impossible dream. This other movie probably also featured a hysterical relationship between an awkward child and their eccentric grandfather who may or may not have been played by Alan Arkin. It just sounds so familiar. Still I can’t quite put my finger on it…
Anyway, despite however recycled Sunshine Cleaning’s sensibilities seem at times, overall this was a genuine and hopeful flick that managed to consistently lighten things up with well-placed laughs. Adams and Blunt are fully convincing as sisters and unlike other movies in this vein (in which, let’s say, one of the major characters might die) the climax isn’t so dramatic and horrible that the viewer finds it unbelievable or hard to recover from. Sunshine’s biggest fault lies in its ending, which was so hastily patched up and unresolved that it could leave the viewer with a sour taste.
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