How are people bonding amid blood splatters?”
Bonding Amid Blood Splatters: Two Sisters and Their Messy Lives By A. O. Scott Published: March 13, 2009 I’m thinking of a movie. Wait, don’t tell me, it’s on the tip of my tongue. It takes place in Albuquerque. There’s a beat-up old van, a lot of family dysfunction, a cute kid, a get-rich-quick scheme that doesn’t quite work out as planned. Alan Arkin is the grandpa. The title? Something about “Sunshine.” No, not that one. “Little Miss Sunshine” came out in 2006. Why on earth would I be reviewing it now? I’m wondering that myself. A better title for the movie I am supposed to review — for the record, it’s “Sunshine Cleaning,” directed by Christine Jeffs from a script by Megan Holley — would be “Sundance Recycling,” since the picture is less a free-standing independent film than a scrap-metal robot built after a shopping spree at the Park City Indie Parts and Salvage Warehouse. I don’t just mean that aspects of the setting, characters and plot seem awfully familiar (and, in a few cases
Bonding Amid Blood Splatters: Two Sisters and Their Messy Lives * E-MAIL * Print * ShareClose o Linkedin o Digg o Facebook o Mixx o My Space o Yahoo! Buzz o Permalink o Article Tools Sponsored By By A. O. Scott Published: March 13, 2009 I’m thinking of a movie. Wait, don’t tell me, it’s on the tip of my tongue. It takes place in Albuquerque. There’s a beat-up old van, a lot of family dysfunction, a cute kid, a get-rich-quick scheme that doesn’t quite work out as planned. Alan Arkin is the grandpa. The title? Something about “Sunshine.” More About This Movie * Overview * Tickets & Showtimes * New York Times Review * Cast, Credits & Awards * Readers’ Reviews * Trailers & Clips View Clip… Skip to next paragraph Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Prada and BeyondSlide Show Prada and Beyond Related Film: Down to Earth, Even When Off the Wall (March 1, 2009) No, not that one. “Little Miss Sunshine” came out in 2006. Why on earth would I be reviewing it now? I’m wondering that myself. A bett
