Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:00PM - By Andrew Payne
Wow! What an excellent week for DVDs. No fewer than seven new features are hitting shelves with even more TV series coming to disc as the fall TV season approaches.
And these aren’t pushovers either. Sunshine Cleaning, “House”, “Californication”, Duplicity, and “NCIS” all explode onto shelves alongside the three worst DVDs of the week and some interesting special editions.
Monday, March 16, 2009 8:45AM - By Kara Stanford-Jones
Overture Films‘ Sunshine Cleaning is a quirky dark comedy of a single mom, Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams), trying to improve her life. After her son, Oscar (Jason Spevack), is kicked out of school, Rose is determined to earn the money to send him to private school. To afford this expensive endeavour, she starts a crime scene clean-up business, with her sister Norah (Emily Blunt), named Sunshine Cleaning. Rose has aspirations of a better life for her son, but she just can’t quite get it together. Sunshine Cleaning had the makings to be a hit, but just fell short of greatness. This film has a great cast and crew; Christine Jeffs (Silvia) directs with producers, Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf (Little Miss Sunshine).
It is too easy to compare it to another movie I’ll give you a hint, ‘sunshine’ is also in the title. Because ”Sunshine Cleaning” and “Little Miss Sunshine” share the same producers, many of aspects are carried over: “Sunshine” in the title, Albuquerque, and Alan Arkin. Although, I should not nail the producers for making a similar movie–um Judd Apatow, anyone?–I still couldn’t help myself and think that the movie will be like Little Miss Sunshine 2. That said, I feel that Sunshine Cleaning seems to lack the “little-movie-that-could” essence and overall feel of its predecessor.
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 11:00PM - By Nushin Rashidian
The producers of “Little Miss Sunshine” bring you another quirky comedy about yet another dysfunctional family, “Sunshine Cleaning” (Yes, it even has the word “sunshine” in its title). This film is likely to raise comparisons and possible complaints due to the surface parallels it shares with “Little Miss Sunshine,” though, the two are quite different.
“Sunshine Cleaning” is a film about Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams), a single mother trying to get her son into a better school. At a point of desperation, she convinces her sister, Norah (Emily Blunt), to join her in opening a crime-scene cleaning business. Clearly, the Lorkowski sisters never learned from their father Joe’s (Alan Arkin) mistakes and failures involving plotting ways to get rich quick. The business surprisingly grows, and the family grows closer along with it. What unfolds in this film is a new version of the old tale of a dysfunctional family growing close in an unconventional way.
Enjoy the trailer after the jump!
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