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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #37 Sunshine Cleaning

Published on January 31, 2008

#37. Sunshine Cleaning

Director: Christine Jeffs
Writer: Megan Holley (debut)
Producers: Jeb Brody, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub (from Big Beach Films) and Glenn Williamson (Hollywoodland)
Distributor: Currently Seeking Distribution

The Gist: Written by Megan Holley, “Cleaning” is a
character piece about Rose Lorkowski, tired and frustrated by her job
cleaning other people’s homes, anxious to earn more money to send her
eight year-old son Oscar to private school, Rose goes into business
with her unreliable sister Norah doing biohazard removal and crime
scene clean up.

Fact: Jeffs directed the Paltrow-starrer very dark and difficult film Sylvia.

See It: Got some good reviews from Sundance and boasts an impressive cast. Tonality draws upon dramedy genre. Premise sounds delicious.

Release Date/Status?: This got a world preem from Sundance, but didn’t find a buyer right off the bat. Look for it in theaters this year.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).