Sunshine Cleaning, 2008

Had no interest in this film whatsoever until I started hearing the trailer over and over at work. It sounded whimsical, as I thought, but perhaps a little smarter and edgier than I'd thought when first hearing about it. Generally, when I hear Amy Adams is in a movie, I'm skeptical. I haven't enjoyed her really in anything, and can only see her as the annoying dacing princess from Enchanted. Here, finally, she changed my mind. She can do edgy, apparently.

I really enjoyed this one. It's a good story -- I'd almost go so far as to say it's original in it's concept, and that's fairly rare these days. Two down on their luck chicks -- one with a kid, the other living with dad -- go into their own crime-scene cleaning business, and find that cleaning up the waste of the dead is about more than stains on the floor and the walls. They find it's an entry into people's lives at their most private. The fallout of such an emotional job seeps into their home and private lives, and ultimately changes the both of them, for better and for worse.

It's funny, well-written, clever, human, and interesting. Really good movie.