Sunshine Cleaning - Movie Review

Sunshine Cleaning (R) 102 minutes B-
Truth & Consequence in New Mexico

Starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Steve Zahn, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Clifton Collins Jr., and Jason Spevack

In high school Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) was popular, pretty and most-likely-to succeed. Nowadays she is the mother of an 8 year-old named Oscar (Jason Spevack) and working as a maid to make ends meet.

When she finds herself assigned to clean the house of a former classmate, Rose realizes how far she has sunk. There's no baby daddy in the picture, she's having an affair with a married cop (Steve Zahn), and her son is having a difficult time fitting in at school.

Desperate for a life change... and cash, Rose enlists her sister Norah (Emily Blunt) to help her establish a lucrative crime scene/bio hazard clean up business. The sisters are naturally polar opposites with deep seeded mother issues, but the two manage to turn this odd career choice into a sister bonding/coming of age story.

It's no Little Miss Sunshine, but it's quirky and smart enough to be recommended viewing

Bonus DVD Review*************************************

Made of Honor (PG-13) 101 minutes C-
Silly but watchable

DVD Release date - September 16, 2008
Starring Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Kathleen Quinlan, and Sydney Pollack

I've said it a million times - "I'm a sucker for romantic comedies". Of course I would prefer them to be better than this, but nevertheless, Made of Honor is a decent distraction on a Tuesday night when there's nothing else on television.

Patrick Dempsey is likable enough and Michelle Monaghan is cute enough to keep it interesting, despite it's predictability and asinine romantic comedy cliches (just tell her you love her already!).