15 March 2009

Sunshine Cleaning

This is a great little movie! The plot is about 2 sisters who get into business cleaning up crime scenes. I'm a 'procedural' junkie (CSI, L&O, etc) so I find the whole idea of this line of work gross yet fascinating. There are a few gruesome images in the movie but no dead bodies (they've all been removed by the time the sisters do their work). The heart of the movie is less the crime scenes than it is the family to which the sisters belong, which includes their father and the son of one of the women, as well as their mother who is no longer with them. This is a family that's down and out but trying in their own ways to make a life and the way that they manage that makes this a rewarding movie.

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