Usually much more of a horror fan, I do watch other things now and then. I heard of SUNSHINE CLEANING from some friends at a pre-Christmas gathering, and since it popped up in the TV listings this week, it seemed like fate. And since there was blood in it, I could not pass it up.
From some of the same folks that brought us LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, the film did have a similarly quirky feel, which I can appreciate, being of the quirky persuasion already myself. Two sisters, in a effort to make more money than they could waiting tables or cleaning homes for a living, dive head-first into a crime-scene cleaning business.
While it starts out as a morbid exercise for them, they begin to get invested in the lives of the families of the folks that they are cleaning up after. We get to see how much they begin to care for the families and the legacy of the victims, and how it begins to impact their lives and how they treat others in their own family.
What I really liked about this film was the real way these folks related to each other. No job was the same as the previous, and they had a lot of job issues and family issues to iron out with each passing day. Even after some major problems after one of the jobs, things did end on a high note, and there was a nice little bow on the end - maybe a little too happy of an ending, but satisfying, nonetheless. A good watch, for sure.
Score - 8/10
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