The 2008 Sundance Film Festival saw the release of '' Sunshine Cleaning '' , a comedy-drama about two sisters ( played by Adams and Emily Blunt ) who start a crime scene clean-up business . Adams was attracted to the idea of playing someone who constantly tries to better herself . Mick LaSalle of '' San Francisco Chronicle '' considered Adams to be " magical " , adding that she " gives us a portrait of raging want beneath a veneer of surface diffidence " . In the 1939-set screwball comedy '' Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day '' , Adams starred as an aspiring American actress in London who encounters a middle-aged governess named Miss Pettigrew ( played by Frances McDormand ) . Stephen Holden of '' The New York Times '' drew similarities to her role in '' Enchanted '' and wrote that the " screen magic " she displays in such endearing roles " has n't been this intense since the heyday of Jean Arthur "
2008 Sundance Film Festival
2008 Sundance Film Festival
Amy Adams