Writers: Nick Cassevetes, Jeremy Leven, Jodi Picoult(author)
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Cameron Diaz, Sofia Vassilieva
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Anna Fitzgerald has been giving blood, having surgeries performed on her, helping her older sister who is suffering from cancer in anyway possible since the hour she was born. Now she is eleven years old and about to donate a kidney to her sister. Under the pressure of her mom (Cameron Diaz) and guilt from her sister (Sofia Vassilieva)., she decides to hire the best lawyer she knows (Alec Baldwin) to get medical emancipation from her parents, making her own decisions from now on. It truly pains a book lover when one of their favourite novels is forever ruined by what they call a cinematic take of the book. My advice for filmmakers translating bestsellers from book to movie, is just don’t touch it. Don’t do anything. Don’t change anything. Everyone loved it as a book, so why do anything else? Unless you are extremely careful to not change anything or you have something that’s based on it and change the title, why even make it into a film? I suppose that for the people who didn’t read the book they would have wept and considered it a beautiful story and honestly I would have preferred seeing the movie first, and then have read the book. This movie is a true tearjerker but you don’t have to bring a box of tissues because it’s almost as if the theatre has them ready for you. Everything in this film that is supposed to make you cry is too forced. It’s almost like you're crying for the sake of crying and nothing else. While everyone else was balling their eyes out and I had two of my friends heads on each side of me resting on my shoulders, I was sitting there appalled by the completely changed cliché ending stolen from every other episode of Grey’s Anatomy and ER. To all those heartbroken fans of the book, don’t let this ruin your idea of My Sister’s Keeper like it has for me.
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