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“We come into people’s lives when they have experienced something sad and profound… In some small way, we help.”
Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) busts her butt as a housekeeper in Albuquerque to support herself and her young son Oscar (Jason Spevack) and put herself through real estate school. Oscar has a penchant for getting into trouble at school and Rose needs to get him into a private school.
Rose’s married boyfriend Mac (Steve Zahn) is a cop who suggests that Rose earns some real money by running a biohazard cleaning business -- basically, cleaning up crime scenes and sites where suicides happened and where dead bodies laid for some time before being found.
Her sister Norah (Emily Blunt) can’t hold a job so Rose convinces Norah to join her in her new business –- Sunshine Cleaning.
Their dad Joe (Alan Arkin), an entrepreneurial salesman, takes Oscar off on his sales route as Rose and Norah head off to their first job –- the site of a homicide by gun. With no training and no awareness of the procedures that must be followed, the woman launch into cleaning the house.
Their next job introduces them to the reality of stench, maggots, flies, body fluids, and all the other nasty stuff. Winston (Clifton Collins, Jr.), who runs the cleaning supply business, gives Rose and Norah biohazard manuals and shows them the supplies they need.
In the process of cleaning up the debris of death, Rose and Norah also clean up their own lives and begin living anew.
Others in the cast include Paul Dooley as their family friend Sherm who sells them an Econoline van; Amy Redford as Mac’s wife Heather; Mary Lynn Rajskub as the daughter of dead woman whose house Rose and Norah cleaned.
Directed by Christine Jeffs.
Run time: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Rated R.
My personal rating: B+
Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) busts her butt as a housekeeper in Albuquerque to support herself and her young son Oscar (Jason Spevack) and put herself through real estate school. Oscar has a penchant for getting into trouble at school and Rose needs to get him into a private school.
Rose’s married boyfriend Mac (Steve Zahn) is a cop who suggests that Rose earns some real money by running a biohazard cleaning business -- basically, cleaning up crime scenes and sites where suicides happened and where dead bodies laid for some time before being found.
Her sister Norah (Emily Blunt) can’t hold a job so Rose convinces Norah to join her in her new business –- Sunshine Cleaning.
Their dad Joe (Alan Arkin), an entrepreneurial salesman, takes Oscar off on his sales route as Rose and Norah head off to their first job –- the site of a homicide by gun. With no training and no awareness of the procedures that must be followed, the woman launch into cleaning the house.
Their next job introduces them to the reality of stench, maggots, flies, body fluids, and all the other nasty stuff. Winston (Clifton Collins, Jr.), who runs the cleaning supply business, gives Rose and Norah biohazard manuals and shows them the supplies they need.
In the process of cleaning up the debris of death, Rose and Norah also clean up their own lives and begin living anew.
Others in the cast include Paul Dooley as their family friend Sherm who sells them an Econoline van; Amy Redford as Mac’s wife Heather; Mary Lynn Rajskub as the daughter of dead woman whose house Rose and Norah cleaned.
Directed by Christine Jeffs.
Run time: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Rated R.
My personal rating: B+
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