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Sunshine Cleaning

  • 20082008
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  • 1h 31m
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6.8/10
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Amy Adams and Emily Blunt in Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
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In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business -- a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service -- with her unreliable sister.In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business -- a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service -- with her unreliable sister.In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business -- a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service -- with her unreliable sister.
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
72K
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    • Christine Jeffs
    • Megan Holley
  • Stars
    • Amy Adams
    • Emily Blunt
    • Alan Arkin
    • Christine Jeffs
    • Megan Holley
  • Stars
    • Amy Adams
    • Emily Blunt
    • Alan Arkin
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    • 152User reviews
    • 177Critic reviews
    • 61Metascore
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    Top cast

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    Amy Adams
    Amy Adams
    • Rose
    Emily Blunt
    Emily Blunt
    • Norah
    Alan Arkin
    Alan Arkin
    • Joe
    Jason Spevack
    Jason Spevack
    • Oscar
    Steve Zahn
    Steve Zahn
    • Mac
    Mary Lynn Rajskub
    Mary Lynn Rajskub
    • Lynn
    Clifton Collins Jr.
    Clifton Collins Jr.
    • Winston
    Eric Christian Olsen
    Eric Christian Olsen
    • Randy
    Paul Dooley
    Paul Dooley
    • Sherm
    Kevin Chapman
    Kevin Chapman
    • Carl
    Judith Jones
    • Paula Datzman-Mead
    Amy Redford
    Amy Redford
    • Heather
    Christopher Dempsey
    Christopher Dempsey
    • Gun Shop Suicide
    Vic Browder
    Vic Browder
    • Gun Shop Owner
    Ivan Brutsche
    • Above and Beyond Worker
    Arron Shiver
    Arron Shiver
    • Detective
    Ralph Jason Aukison
    • Gun Shop Employee #1
    Cliff Garstka Sr.
    • Gun Shop Employee #2
    • (as Clifford R. Garstka Sr.)
      • Christine Jeffs
      • Megan Holley
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    • Trivia
      The filmmakers have said in interviews their story is based on a 2001 National Public Radio "All Things Considered" report about two women in the Seattle suburbs who started a biohazard removal/cleaning service. They are best friends, not sisters.
    • Goofs
      When Norah chases after the kitten, there is a small table and a cat statue on the porch. Later, when the house is burning at night, the table and statue are gone. A subsequent scene of the porch in flames has the table and cat statue back again.
    • Quotes

      Lynn: How'd she die?

      Norah: It was sorta a do-it-yourself thing?

    • Alternate versions
      Amy Adams brief topless scene has been censored in the US home video releases. Those frames are zoomed in slightly to omit the nudity where as the framing is left intact on releases outside of the US.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Miss March/Race to Witch Mountain/Sunshine Cleaning (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Cure for This
      Performed by Golden Smog

      Written by Marc Perlman

      Courtesy of Lost Highway Records

      under license from Universal Music Enterprises

    User reviews152

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    7/10
    Working Class Respect
    I quite liked the film. I would watch Amy Adams stare at grass and Emily Blunt is always top notch. One thing that stuck out for me about the film was that it offers a look at real working-class people doing real work, and does so in a respectful manner. Rose tries to put a positive spin on her post-mortem cleanup work to gathered yuppies in an awkward social setting and is clearly defensive. But you can see her coming to value the work for the good it does. There is nothing wrong with adventure thrillers about high crimes and misdemeanors, about the far-too-well-to-do, and about easy lives, but it is heartening to see hard-scrabble work valued, not just as a barrier to be overcome but as a thing that has intrinsic value and that does real good. Rose and Nora take on work that the yuppie ladies would never dream of tackling, and do real good for real people. This is a film that does not dazzle us with fireworks or glitter, but it has heart. We like that.
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    • Willemite
    • Mar 22, 2009

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • April 17, 2009 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • Spanish
      • Korean
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      • Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
    • Production companies
      • Overture Films
      • Big Beach Films
      • Back Lot Pictures
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    • 1 hour 31 minutes
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