“Sunshine Cleaning” is a dramedy starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin and Steve Zahn that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January this year, and fell off the theatrical radar all together. It tells the story about a 30-something maid Rose (Adams) who learns that she can make more money in the crime scene than she can as a domestic worker, and she recruits her sister Norah (Blunt) to create their very own cleaning company, “Sunshine Cleaning.”
Todd McCarthy whined in his review and compared it to “Little Miss Sunshine,” I mean how could he not the are both of the same genre, share Alan Arkin and have the word ‘Sunshine’ in the title, saying that it comes short of achieving the same level of excellence “Little Miss Sunshine” did.
But he says something else about Amy Adams, half the reason I want to see the film in the first place the other half being Blunt, “Still, the film is in good measure saved by the leads, especially Adams, who proves once again what a sparkling, irresistible screen presence she has. So energizing and uplifting is she that considerable interest attends the test of her ability to perform scenes of doubt and despair (she can), and no matter her character’s previous decade of drudge work, Adams leaves no doubt that Rose will find a way to prevail in the end.” The film is currently set for release in 2009, with the exact date to be announced.
This post is courtesy of our friends at Fataculture.