There is some pretty gruesome scenes that have to clean up as well as what shown in the movie. There was some very well placed comedy in the movie that lightened it up.
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Sunshine Cleaning
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Not age appropriate for kids under 15, age appropriate for kids over 18; suggested age 15. -
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Common Sense says
Adult dramedy has unusual mix of laughs, gore, heavy themes.
Themes in this movie include: family relationships, loss
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 15–18
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What Parents Need to Know
About Sunshine Cleaning
Parents need to know that this dramedy, in addition to taking on mature themes like suicide and infidelity, is quite gory. The many post-death scenes include disturbing shots of things like pools of blood on ceilings, floors, and walls; human flesh awaiting clean up; and a brief flash of a suicide victim awaiting discovery. There's also lots of talk about death, and the fact that the adult characters are unable to find direction till the end clearly affects the one child in their midst. All of that said, the movie does have a lot of heart and, in the end, a hopeful message. But to get to the uplift, viewers have to endure a pretty grueling journey.
Read our full review by S. Jhoanna Robledo
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about whether the movie's scenes of blood and gore have more impact because it's a comedy rather than a horror movie. Are these scenes scary, disturbing, neither, or both?
- Families can also discuss the characters' search for a way out of their present condition. What drives them?
- Though the central family is clearly dysfunctional, what's positive about their relationships? What is it about families that make them drive each other crazy but give each other hope, too?
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- I rate this title iffy for age 14 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
Great Humor
- I rate this title iffy for age 15 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
funny and a good movie
i dont like a movie with drug references but everything else makes up for it. its cute realistic and funny. i have problems with the main character. she is insecure and weak when it comes to relationships. one problem is she is a single mom. she should have learned by now.
- I rate this title iffy for age 16 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Really funny but also heavy
This movie is about two sisters who find a job cleaning up after crime sceans. There is alot of violance and suicides witch make some parts hard to watch. The girls stick together in hard times witch is nice. Only for kids 16+
- I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it
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I WANT TO SEE IT!!!!!!
- I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it
I Love You, Amy Adams
Seriously, there hasn't been a movie with her that I've seen that hasn't been good. I loved "Doubt," "Miss Pettigrew Live for a Day," "Junebug," "Enchanted," and now "Sunshine Cleaning." She's like superhuman or something! Now that I've got that off of my chest, let's move in to the movie itself. It has an odd (but never uneasy) mix of genres: comedy, drama, romance, a little bit of gross-out, a little bit of mystery, and a little bit of thriller. Okay, so it's not really a thriller, but I say that because the film has a bunch of threads that all come together with some "a-ha!"s along the way. The film chronicles the lives of two sisters, one a maid and the other a slacker that still lives with their dad. Amy Adams (whose character name I can't remember) is trying to raise the money to send her son to a private school, because he can never seem to hold his own at a public one. She is having an affair with a high-chool flame who is now a cop, and he tells her that cleaning crime scenes can make a lot of money. So, she and her sister Nora (played to perfection by Emily Blunt) begin a crime scene clean-up business, calling it SUNSHINE CLEANING. And that's where it takes off, where Nora becomes obsessed with meeting the daughter of a woman who they "cleaned up" after (perhaps because of her trouble dealing with her own mother's death), when their dad (the hilarious Alan Arkin) starts a business selling shrimp out of a bathtub, and when they befriend the one-armed store clerk Winston. The film is both heartbreaking and hilarious, the right mixture of heart and humor. I for one loved it, and I think that anyone who doesn't must have a heart of stone.
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