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Review - Sunshine Cleaning

July 1st 2009 09:18

Amy Adams can do no wrong at the moment. Whether she is playing Amelia Earhart in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian or a nun in Doubt, she rises to the challenge and wins every time. In Sunshine Cleaning, another very successful role, she plays single mum Rose Lorkowski struggling to raise her son Oscar (Jason Spevack). Once head cheerleader at high school and envy of all, she is now a cleaner but not without aspirations.

She struggles admittedly with men, "I'm good at getting guys to want me. Not date me, or marry me, but want me" and is having an affair with her highschool sweetheart Mac (Steve Zahn) who is now married with children. Starring alongside Zahn, fresh from their roles together in The Great Buck Howard, is Emily Blunt as Norah, sister to Rose.

Norah is the younger sibling in the family and due to the untimely death of their mother when they were young, Rose has a tendency to mother Norah. Norah is unreliable, unable to keep a job and lives with her father Joe (Alan Arkin). Equally as dysfunctional and in a role ideal for Arkin, Joe goes from money making scheme to scheme in order to pay the bills and to fund a pair of binoculars for his grandson for his birthday.

Oscar, who is not a bad child, has some very awkward tendencies and unfortunately for the Lorkowski's, the school is unable to manage a child with his behavioural issues. Rose is unable to afford her son the advantage of private school and is keen to turn her life around. Mac, a local policeman, suggests that Rose turn her sights from cleaning rooms to cleaning crime scenes to make more money and the company Sunshine Cleaning is borne.

The two sisters are not close and for this reason, they find it very difficult to work together. Rose is more grounded while Norah struggles to take life or her job seriously. Once they realise that colleagues are treating their little business as an amateur show, with the help of Clifton Collins Jr. as Winston, they soon find themselves ready for any biohazard emergency. The relationship between Winston and Rose is played out beautifully and I felt it was one of the more real relationships that was captured on the screen. In fact I would've liked to have seen more of him on screen as well as all the men for that matter. Steve Zahn's role was remarkably insignificant and the lack of his screentime, failed toe develop the internal relationship between that of Mac and Rose.

Directed by Christine Jeffs (Sylvia 2003), she works well with the offbeat script penned by Megan Holley. Overall I enjoyed this movie and the concept of the two women working in such a man based environment was refreshing without been forced. Apart from the lack of development of characterisations with the men and a little overly sentimental, I still managed to find the movie refreshing.

Voyage Review: 3.5/5

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