Given how easily the filmmakers could have cranked up the string section and gone for the quivering lip in soft focus, their restraint is admirable.
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06/26/09
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
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Reviews Counted:125
Fresh:58
Rotten:67
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: My Sister's Keeper gets fine performances from its adult and child actors, but the director's heavy-handed approach turns a worthy emotional subject into an overly melodramatic tearjerker.
Theatrical Release:Jun 26, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $49,069,310
Synopsis: THE NOTEBOOK's Nick Cassavetes directs another tearjerking literary adaptation with this drama based on Jodi Picoult's novel. Cameron Diaz takes a detour from comedy to play Sara, the domineering... [More]
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Sofia Vassilieva
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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Reviews for My Sister's Keeper
An adaptation that, although departing dramatically from such key elements as the book's ending, will please fans.
06/26/09
I found the movie to be really tough and challenging and enjoyable.
06/29/09
As an example of the age old Hollywood weeper as post-modern semi-serious character study, Nick Cassavete's My Sister's Keeper is too safe to be wholly successful, too powerful to be merely pushed aside.
06/26/09
If My Sister's Keeper feels melodramatic and contrived, it is, at least, sincerely so.
06/26/09
Navigates a minefield of emotional explosives intelligently and sensitively, with excellent performances that strike the right balance between heartfelt and hand-wringing.
07/15/09
With solid performances and an intelligent script, My Sister's Keeper offers a moving and powerfully realistic portrait of a family stalked by tragedy that somehow manages to emerge from crisis battered but intact.
06/26/09
Contrived or not, sad is sad, and My Sister's Keeper will have all but the most cement-hearted reaching for tissue.
06/26/09
Director Nick Cassavetes relies too much on montages with wispy songs about yearning and unicorns, but he gracefully balances the film's multiple viewpoints, which help us understand that the film's issues are not black and white.
06/26/09
My Sister's Keeper is a shameless weepy, one of the most manipulative and fundamental of genres, but it also raises some surprisingly difficult and thought-provoking ethical questions.
06/23/09
Top Critic...will relieve six months worth of tears for audiences willing to take its cathartic journey.
06/29/09
Uneven but deeply moving.
06/26/09
[I]ntelligent, moving and even occasionally funny, although you might want to bring along a few tissues just in case.
08/11/09
A very satisfying, if emotionally draining, experience. Needless to say you should take a large box of hankies - plus a bottle of water so you can rehydrate afterwards.
07/03/09
...consistently manages to rise above its similarly-themed, undeniably low-rent brethren...
06/28/09
There's no question that this is a really intriguing drama and a drama that I think deserved better treatment than it gets here because I think Nick Cassevetes -- I don't think he's a very good director, really.
07/29/09
My Sister’s Keeper becomes a well-heeled weepie in which the family’s comfortable existence, despite the misfortunes of fate, is hardly challenged at all.
07/03/09
As manufactured Disease of the Week weepies go, Nick Cassavetes's drama based on a Jodi Picoult bestseller, is surprisingly moving.
07/29/09
A motion picture of notable sensitivity and beauty, hamstrung emotions kept to a minimum. Tough, touchy, provocative, and exceptionally moving.
06/25/09
Cameron Diaz gives a strong dramatic turn in Cassavetes uneven family melodrama, which begins well with poignant probing of timely issues like social engineering before turning into conventional courtroom tale that deviates from the book's tone and ending
06/22/09
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