Time for a standard Hollywood plot. You've got a dysfunctional family with a
big immediate problem, and a lot of underlying problems. In order to solve the
big immediate problem, they get together and do an unusual activity, and in
coming together, solve a lot of the underlying problems too.
In this case, the immediate problem is getting enough money together to send
the kid to a decent school, the underlying problem is a pair of sisters who've
yet to come to terms with their mother's suicide, and the unusual activity is
forming a business which cleans crime scenes and apartments after murders,
suicides and people who've died alone and gradually decomposed into their
mattresses.
And there is your first clue that this isn't your usual Hollywood tat. Any
comedy attached to that is likely to be somewhat restrained and rather dark,
and this is certainly true of this film. And that level of elegant restraint is
evident throughout the film. It feels real, it has a realistic perspective. The
characters are charming, the problems believable, and the resolutions within
the scope of what's possible and believable.
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