Sunshine Cleaning
| Director: |
Christine Jeffs
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| Cast: |
Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Steve Zahn, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Clifton Collins Jr., Jason Spevack
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A must-watch especially for lesbian viewers, Sunshine
Cleaning is a beautiful indie movie about finding the
meaning of life when you’re surrounded by death.
Amy Adams and Emily Blunt play sisters who are, well, losers.
Amy was a former school cheerleader and popular It-girl who is
now in her thirties, working in lousy jobs, and struggling to
raise a young boy on her own. Meanwhile, Emily is a rebellious
hard-partying punk who keeps losing her job and has to live with
their cantankerous father (Alan Arkin).
Desperate to make more money, Amy considers taking on the job
of cleaning up crime scenes. It pays a heck of a lot more than
cleaning houses because few people want to wash up after dead
people. She ropes in her jobless younger sister, and the two
start work on cleaning blood-drenched, foul-smelling houses.
Slowly and unexpectedly, the sisters find renewed hope for their
dysfunctional lives
Written by Megan Holley and directed by Christine Jeffs, Sunshine
Cleaning may be classified as a chick flick by some. But
its a chick flick with more heart, soul and intelligence than
most. Both Amy and Emily are talented actresses who bring out
the comedy and poignancy of the script in surprising ways.
The scene where the sisters come to terms to their mother’s
death is one of the most heartbreaking scenes in recent memory.
For lesbian viewers, there is also the added treat of a lesbian
subplot between Emily and a lonely woman (Mary Lynn Rajskub)
whose mother’s home Emily cleaned.
Though the film errs somewhat on being unfairly anti-men, Sunshine
Cleaning is still a lovely picture that deserves to be
seen by all. |