One Paragraph Review: Sunshine Cleaning

I can't call this a bad meal but it really wasn't anything to save in the recipe book. Sunshine Cleaning tells the story of a down-on-her luck young mother who gets into the business cleaning up crime scenes and dead bodies. There were a lot of "independent film" elements to the movie — indy sister, precocious and overly smart son, shopkeeper with one arm, Albuquerque, etc. — but I'm not sure the story wasn't anything you couldn't get from a good TV drama. And how many films can Alan Arkin play the quirky yet stable father? And how many of 'em have "Sunshine" in the title? This movie was basically an indie stew that just didn't taste that great in the end.