This film was good, but it wasn't that good. The actual story of Amy Adams and her clean-up business was interesting, but every story surrounding that just felt half-baked and uninteresting. It should have been better.

I chose to watch this movie because the plot seemed interesting enough, but mainly I even learned about this movie because Clifton Collins Jr. is in this movie.Sunshine Cleaning is very simple yet delicate and vulnerable. It's exactly what drama movies should be like, when they are at their finest without trying too much. It's a slice of life, and while it moves you, it also makes you feel good, it makes you smile. The emotional side of the characters is very easy to relate to. There was a scene where another person told the main character Rose she was nothing, and while I of course share that scene with no basis whatsoever, it was weirdly powerful in the movie. While I usually don't get bothered by this kind of exchanges, this felt very real and when I paused the movie to reply to a text I felt like someone had said something mean to me, that I had read that somewhere, that it actually was about me. The cast of the movie is incredibly talented. Mostly I admire the talent of Amy Adams and Emily Blunt both show emotion in incredible well and believably for different characters with different personalities. Both are great actresses,While the plot wasn't exactly what I thought, and I didn't like all the plot points and how certain things ended up, Sunshine Cleaning is still a very nice and emotional drama.

........................................................from Pasto,Colombia...Via: L.A. CA., CALI, COLOMBIA and ORLANDO, FL Cinema that provokes a strong reaction from me, for good or for bad, is easier to review. "Movies in the Middle", like "SUNSHINE", always present much more of a challenge. "From the same people who brought you 'Little Miss Sunshine'…" This phrase was used a lot in the SUNSHINE promos. Maybe it got in the way of me getting more out of the film. It didn't set very well with me that… A) Both titles employ the word "SUNSHINE".B) Alan Arkin basically does a warmed over version of his role in "Little Miss" C) Both films are about dysfunctional families with a precocious child.Taken as a whole, it just seemed too obvious that "The same people who brought you…" wanted desperately to cash in, AGAIN, and SUNSHINE(2?)is just a vehicle for doing so! Still, it does have ingratiating qualities. If you can tolerate the slow as molasses initial 30 minutes…(OK-Wait, make that as DELIBERATE as Molasses!), you'll probably feel it was worth your while, a pretty good little indie film, which could easily have been a lot better.Catharsis, healing, coping, forgiveness and moving on, are some of the operative buzz-words for "Sunshine Cleaning". Perhaps just a tad too dreary for such a cheery title? "Sunshine" would have benefited from the injection of just a little more comic relief in the mix. The acting fell a little short of expectation. With Amy Adams (Junebug/Doubt) and Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) perhaps my expectations were too high! Something was missing. The script was spotty and rather lackluster at times.The on-screen chemistry was variable. Often, Alan Arkin's presence seemed to be a hindrance to the flow and balance of the scene and the story. SUNSHINE did have a very down-to-earth, realistic feel to it. The problems, reactions to them, and solutions encountered, or not, as the case may be, were believable and mundane; stuff that we all can relate too. Immediately after viewing, I had settled on a 6 Star rating, thinking "Sunshine" was going to be sans ricocheting...But, there has been a little of that going on in that 'Id' of mine, hours after viewing. So, we'll up it to 7 Stars!.....ENJOY/DISFRUTELA! Any comments, questions or observations, in English o en Español, are most welcome!

I love this movie. It has all my favorite actors.However, the film got me really confused about the family dynamic between Alan Arkin, Amy Adams and Emily Blunt. Blunt's performance is lovely but her American accent in this film is just terrible. I kinda blame on the casting department a little bit or at least put her in some American classes before filming for god sake. I was really nervous for Henry Cavill causing a little controversy when he was chosen to play historical Superman, but as a young rising star he did such a great job on his American accent. Some critics mentioned Blunt's accent is a part of this film's humor. Really and how? We don't know Hugh Laurie is British in House,Hugh Jackman and his perfect American accent. Not just doing a perfect American accent, Australian actor Ryan Kwanten does the best Southern accent in True Blood. Is this movie's budget really low or the producer is too cheap to train Blunt's tongue. The film is beautifully done but fails in basic common mistake, three family members all have different accents.