Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Sunshine Cleaning moved and inspired the crowd and after being purchased by Overture Films was released in March of 2009.  The reviews have been anything but complimentary for this hard edged outre film but who really cares what the critics say because the public absolutely loves it.

Amy Adams plays a thirty-something single mom who works as a cleaning lady. Wanting to send her son to private school she decides to get into the crime scene clean up business, which is said to be very lucritive by her policeman lover (Steve Zahn).  Rose (Adams) coerces her underachiveing sister Norah (Emily Blunt) to be her partner in “crime” as they realize this job is more than cleaning up a mess, it’s about being there to help people during these traggic events, “even if it is in some small way”. 

The film is genuine and Emily Blunt alongside Amy Adams render emotions so easily empathized that without blatant explanation their past and present is completely understood. 

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I am anxiously anticipating Friday, December 12th and the release of  John Patrick Shanley’s film, Doubt.  Shanley wrote the screenplay based on his very own stage play of the same name, which in 2005 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and also the very prestgious Tony Award for Best Play.  

Ideas of religion, authority, and morality are underlying paradoxes throughout the story of  intense suspicion, where the charismatic priest of St. Nicolas’ school in the Bronx is giving too much personal attention to a black student.  Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams star in this heated, impassioned film.

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