Sunshine Cleaning (2008)

Sunshine Cleaning DVD

Overture Films
Starring:
 Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin
Directed by: Christine Jeffs

Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: Rose (Amy Adams) enlists the help of her sister Norah (Emily Blunt) to start a business cleaning crime scenes to pay for her son’s private tuition.

Purr Blur: On their first job Rose and Norah arrive at an apartment building. A black cat is sitting on a couch outside.

Sunshine Cleaning - black cat sitting on couch outside hotel

Sunshine Cleaning - black cat sitting on couch outside hotel long shot

The black cat is beneath a barbecue grill when the girls are leaving.

Sunshine Cleaning - black cat sitting beneath barbecue outside hotel

Featured Feline: Late in the movie Norah begins cleaning a house alone to cover for Rose. The home obviously belonged to a cat hoarder, as her place is filled with cat memorabilia and dirty litter boxes. As Norah lifts the mattress a small Siamese kitten runs out from underneath.

Sunshine Cleaning - Siamese kitten running for door

Norah is startled by the kitten and falls back, toppling a candle she had lit to diffuse the bad odors.  She runs after the kitten as it heads outside.

Sunshine Cleaning - Siamese kitten running

Norah corners the kitten beneath the company van and pulls it out, talking sweetly to it and asking if he had been left behind.

Sunshine Cleaning - Norah Emily Blunt holding Siamese kitten underneath van

As Norah is cuddling the cat she realizes that smoke is pouring from a window of the house. She sets the kitten in the back of the van before grabbing a fire extinguisher and running back into the house.

Sunshine Cleaning - Norah Emily Blunt holding up Siamese kitten

Sunshine Cleaning - Norah Emily Blunt looking shocked while holding Siamese kitten

The house goes up in flames and Norah sits in the van holding the cat as the fire department tries to douse the flames.

Sunshine Cleaning - close up of Siamese kitten in lap

Rose arrives and gets hysterical. Norah locks the door to the van and continues to hold the cat.

Sunshine Cleaning - Norah Emily Blunt holding Siamese kitten in lap in van while house burns

At the end of the film, Norah is seen driving away with the Siamese kitten on her lap.

Sunshine Cleaning - close up of Siamese kitten in lap in car

Final Mewsings: Anyone who cares for cats is not a complete screw up.


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