as one of those films that appeal to women, sunshine cleaning is no sex and the city. there's no glamour in tidying up a crime scene mess. the two sisters, rose and nora (amy adams and emily blunt respectively) are wallowing in dead end sadness. rose, a former high school cheerleader, is a single mother working as a maid. her younger sister nora, who just lost her job as a waitress, is still trying overcome the trauma of their mother's suicide when she was only a child. to make ends meet and to pay for her son's private schooling, rose solicited nora's assistance in starting a crime scene cleaning business together. it didn't quite work out in the film's dénouement but it all fell neatly into place in the ending. it's a movie after all.there might be holes in the lead characters' development but unlike the romcom genre, this is a more blatant representation of reality. no amount of high school cheerleading popularity could catapult a person to the summit of professional and familial success. to earn our keep, sometimes we have to clean other people's crap.
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