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Sunshine Cleaning

Sunshine Cleaning has the feel (but with much less charm) of the similarly monikered Little Miss Sunshine right down to casting Alan Arkin in a supporting role as the family patriarch. Here he’s Joe Lorkowski a semi-retired low level hustler living in Albuquerque and the father of two grown thirtysomething daughters. There’s the lost cause Norah (Emily Blunt) and the more grounded Rose (Amy Adams) who nowadays isn’t as promising as she was not too long ago as the high school head cheerleader dating Mac (Steve Zahn) the captain of the football team. She’s still dating Mac but with a difference - he’s now a police detective married to someone else. Rose has to try to support her hyperactive eight year old son Oscar (Jason Spevack) as a cleaning lady and she’s just not making enough money. A tip from Mac gets Rose and Norah into the lucrative business of cleaning up grizzly crime scenes and life starts getting sweeter until Rose’s prideful behaviour causes an irreparable rift between the siblings. Although Sunshine Cleaning may feel a bit like Little Miss Sunshine it probably won’t clean up as much at the box office or during next years award season.

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