Sunshine Cleaning
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Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.
Our read · Sunshine Cleaning (2008) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Sunshine Cleaning
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a quirky sister dramedy about grief, hustle, and messy family.”
Skip it tonight — Suicide-scene cleanup work will ruin your mood tonight.
The reading.
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