Sunshine Cleaning

At the risk of seeming derogatory, this was “chicky.” Really. The misleading trailer makes it look like a dark comedy, but there is a fair amount of sad drama, and a prominent sisterly relationship with a lot of sentiment and crying. Amy Adams and Emily Blunt are both great, but the script feels like a cobbled-together mosaic of Sundance movies –- trying to include every quirk and conflict from of a bevy of successful movies in hopes of creating a grand Sundance super-hybrid. Because of this, a lot of the story comes off as disingenuous. Thankfully Adams and Blunt breathe extra life into this Frankenstein monster of a screenplay, which made it narrowly tolerable for me. It might do more for the tissue-prone.