Sunshine Cleaning Page #3

Synopsis: A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Christine Jeffs
Production: Overture Films
  2 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
R
Year:
2008
91 min
$12,033,702
Website
757 Views


Please?

Okay. Right, yeah.

Let's talk later.

I gotta go. Bye.

So what do you think?

- Norah.

- What?

Norah, are you even

listening to me?

No, thank you.

What else do you have to do?

You don't go to school.

You don't have a job and you live

with Dad. And no offense, Dad,

but do you really want to live

with Dad for the rest of your life?

You really think you can make a ton

of cash cleaning up after dead people?

I know I can.

It's very lucrative.

- Let's have a nice pleasant dinner.

- It's a racket.

Rose, you buy generic cigarettes

with couch change.

How are you gonna afford

private school?

It's only until I get

my real estate license.

And I quit smoking, by the way.

- Who's going to private school?

- Nobody, Dad.

- Did Oscar get kicked out again?

- Yeah.

- No.

- Oh, for God's sake, what is wrong

with those people?

He's an imaginative kid.

Don't they have any sense at all?

I want to have my birthday at Hinkle's.

No Hinkle's this year.

This year I'm taking you to Disneyland.

- Dad.

- Really?

- I'm taking him to Disneyland.

- Dad, don't.

I'm taking him to Disneyland.

Who wants to split a combination plate?

- Hi there.

- Joe:
Hi.

- Norah.

- Hi, Grandpa.

Norah.

Come on, I'm here.

- Are you sure you're okay with this?

- Yeah, absolutely.

But this boy's got to

get back to school.

What are you doing

about school?

I'm working on it.

Thank you.

What did Mac tell you

about this, Rose?

It's a crime scene.

- With blood?

- Maybe.

I hate Mac.

Hi.

Some sort of domestic disturbance

kind of deal.

It was the lady got the last word,

I guess,

but of course she's in jail now.

I heard one bullet completely

shot off his ring finger.

How long have you guys been doing

this kind of work?

A while.

The last one on the left there.

It's fine.

I found it.

Do you think they loved each other?

Yeah.

Car. Things.

Yeah.

Spritz.

It's not working.

If you scrub and I wipe,

then it works.

- I'm spraying as well.

- Can you spray and scrub?

Joe:
More and more people

are turning to wholesome foods.

Are you telling me this fancy corn

stuff is some kind of health food?

Well, it's candy and it's a health food.

That's what I'm telling you, yeah.

- Yeah, I don't know.

- Here.

- We don't have much more shelf space.

- Right, okay.

Look at the ingredients in here.

What does this say?

Look at that-

Glycerone.

Glyc-

Gly-

I can't even pronounce it.

It's all chemicals.

How can you call it food

if it hasn't got any vowels in it?

Take a look at this now.

What has it got in there?

- High fructose-

- No no no. Look.

The first ingredient there is...

- Corn.

- Corn!

Corn- Can you imagine

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