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Director: Nick Cassavetes
Synopsis
Nick (son of John) Cassavetes directs Abigail Breslin and Cameron Diaz in this follow up to his 2006 thriller, ‘Alpha Dog’. Based on the popular Jodi Piccoult novel, the film follows a young girl suffering from a bone marrow disorder and the efforts of her two sisters to keep her alive.
Movie review
From Time Out London
Nick Cassavetes is best known for ‘The Notebook’, so naked bathos-mongering is what people will come to ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ for, and it mostly delivers. After Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) was diagnosed with leukemia as a child, her parents in vitro engineered Anna (Abigail Breslin) to be her match for surplus bone marrow, kidneys and the rest. Now the younger kid wants out and is willing to sue. The family splits, with Anna and dad (Jason Patric) on one side and devoted mum, Sara (Cameron Diaz), on the other decrying Anna’s ‘selfishness’.Novelist Jodi Picoult has fashioned herself as a conversation-starter about genetics and medical ethics, but her lurid scenario is nonsense. Cassavetes has unexpectedly toned down the over-the-top series of twists from the novel’s last third, though restraint is still a relative concept. The tearjerking is mostly along the sister-sister and mother-daughter axes, aside from a brief romance Kate has with a fellow patient. Diaz is a whiny irrelevance, but sharp supporting work from Alec Baldwin and Joan Cusack makes the proceedings tolerable for boyfriends
Author: Vadim Rizov
Time Out London issue 2026, June 18 - 24, 2008
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- jean said...
- Posted on Jul 10 2009 09:48 I thought this was probably the best film I have seen this year. I expected it to be a weepy, but although sad the story is handles in a very sensitive way so that as viewers we are able to understand the intracasies if the situation. In my opinion it should be up for an award.
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- Blahhh..! said...
- Posted on Jul 03 2009 22:23 was a amazing film. really enjoyed it. though it was sad ..
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- Peter said...
- Posted on Jun 30 2009 23:32 This film is awesome and deserves to be shown for 22 years and 154.35 days. Thats how good it is :)
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- Norman Lowther said...
- Posted on Jun 30 2009 21:09 Pleasantly surprised with the style of this film ! Well done Nick !! I think Dakota Fanning has Abigail Breslin kicking at her heels as Best Young Actress around ! I never tire of looking at Ms Diaz----yummy !!
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Cast & crew
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric, Alec Baldwin, Sofia Vassilieva, Heather Wahlquist, Joan Cusack, Emily Deschanel full cast
Genre(s): Drama
Rated: 12A
Duration: 109 mins
UK Release: Jun 26 2009
US Release: Jun 26 2009
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