Bittersweet portrait of family life in ‘Sunshine Cleaning’
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 08:02 PM
Cert 15
Drama/Comedy/Romance
Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) is a thirty-something single mother trying to take care of her impressionable young son Oscar (Jason Spevack).
While Rose toils as a cleaner night and day, her slacker sister Norah (Emily Blunt) is fired from one job after another. At the suggestion of married cop lover Mac (Steve Zahn), Rose lands some work as a crime scene clean-up technician, mopping up bodily fluids after the police have gone.
Norah joins her in the ghoulish enterprise and in the face of death, the two estranged siblings begin to bond. Sunshine Cleaning is a bittersweet portrait of dysfunctional family life that strikes a pleasing balance between laughter and tears without ever resorting to cheap gags or cloying sentiment.
Rating: 3/5
