Alan Arkin - A Great Actor Making Great Choices

If you missed Alan Arkin's Oscar winning performance in Little Miss Sunshine last year then stop what you are doing and go out and rent the DVD now! Arkin has had a varied acting working regularly from the mid sixties  career from  early career appearances in 1966's The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming (for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor) and 1970's Catch 22 to three more modern flicks and personal favorites of mine, the incomparable Glengarry Glen Ross, the underrated So I Married An Axe Murder and of course Little Miss Sunshine.

Arkin was born in 1030s Brooklyn, New York and was the son of a family of Jewish intellectuals from Germany and Russia. In 1946 the family moved to Los Angeles later Arkin ended up as a singer in a children's folk group called The Babysitters.  Moving into film in the late 50s Arkin has became a regular if not a star of the Big Screen and now we are about to see him in Sunshine Cleaning with Amy Adams.

Its not the most common of movie premises, mother starts a crime scene clean-up business to send her son to a better school, but from the trailer below it looks like it might be worth marking your calender for March 13th 2009:

Alan Arkin - A Great Actor Making Great Choices