This “Sunshine Cleaning” (via Cinematical) poster is totally underwhelming and the film itself sort of looks like the twee, quirky indie flick we’ve been complaining about lately, only with female leads instead of emo boys, but call us crazy, but we loved the trailer and frankly, switching the genders makes this genre fresh-er. First off Amy Adams rules and Emily Blunt is rather great as well. Add Alan Arkin and Steve Vaughn to the mix and you have a great cast.
What’s more the poster reveals that L.A. singer-songwriter Michael Penn (the husband of Aimee Mann) has written the score to the film. Penn recently composed the score to “American Teen,” and he also worked with Paul Thomas Anderson a lot in his early career writing the scores to “Boogie Nights” and “Hard Eight.” He also did the Zach Braff-starring film, “Last Kiss” (ok, that one’s not so great, everyone needs a paycheck from time to time).
Synopsis: A thirty-something maid (Adams), is trying to create a better life for herself and eccentric eight-year-old son Oscar. Her burn-out younger sister Norah (Blunt) still lives at home with their father Joe (Arkin), who’s on the latest of a life-long string of get-rich-quick schemes. When Rose learns of the big money to be made in the crime scene cleaning and bio-hazard removal business, she and Norah partner up to create their own company, “Sunshine Cleaning.”
Either a bonus or a plus, depending on your perspective is that it’s “produced by those that brought you ‘Little Miss Sunshine.’ ” A so-so film that got nominated for an Oscar because the Academy wanted a glint of happiness in their otherwise dour Oscar-baity choices. The director is Christine Jeffs, who helmed the decent, “Sylvia” with Gwyneth Paltrow in 2003.
Here’s the trailer again for those that missed it. “Sunshine Cleaning” comes out in limited release March 13 via Overture Films.