Oh what a great, dark concept for a film. Bio Hazard clean up and removal is the premise and the film, and it is superbly acted and full of visuals most of have never had to see or even imagined what they would look like. Bloody walls, bloody mattresses, hoarders, crazy cat ladies, the whole 9 yards. Rose (Amy Adams) is a house cleaner working for some company when her lover (Steve Zahn) who is a cop, suggests she should get into the uglier side of cleaning. She looks into it and she needs a change. She has absolutely no self esteem, but her sister, Norah (Emily Blunt) has even less, and she is even more of a loser than her older sister. She hires her sister and so it begins. The first couple of jobs are hysterically, disturbingly gross and hysterical. These scenes show us the growing pains and the learning curve Norah and Rose go through. As if their lives aren't hard enough, Rose has an 8 year old son who is constantly in trouble and getting kicked out of school. He ends up tooling around with his Gramps (Alan Arkin), and that is a lot of the comic relief. Her business is going really well, but with her poisonous karma, can it really last? The movie really is about a woman discovering what she needs to do and what she needs to change to be happy. She has lived her entire post high school life on everyone's back burner. She discovers herself among the deceased, and finally can look at herself in the mirror without quoting "self help" bull crap, basically lying to herself. The movie goes way deeper than I expected it to. It goes back to the girls childhood, which enlightens us to why they each have plenty of problems. I enjoyed this movie immensely, and I regret it took me 8 months to get it off my DVR. If you get the chance to watch Sunshine Cleaning, go ahead and do it quickly. Don't procrastinate.
NBM rates Sunshine Cleaning - Phenomenal
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