Sunshine Cleaning – Directed by Christine Jeffs

Sunshine Cleaning , from the same producers who brought you Little Miss Sunshine, is a dark look at a dysfunctional family looking to come together. Amy Adams as Rose is a single mom with a son, a weirded out sister (Emily Blunt), and a goofy father (Alan Arkin, in a reprise of the same type of role he played in Little Miss Sunshine). 

 

Rose starts a business as a crime scene cleaner when her son is expelled from public school. While cleaning up those messes, she also cleans up the mess that is her own life.  They went for the glib Hollywood ending, which didn’t really work for me. This movie didn’t have the quirky cuteness of Little Miss Sunshine. I got the feeling throughout that they were trying to do the very same picture all over again. The producers might want to try mining some new territory for their stories.

 

--Reviewed by Tim Boivin

Comments

[Tracy Shryer]

So, this is on my list of downloads for my new itouch. Maybe I should pick something else instead.