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07/24/09
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
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Reviews Counted:127
Fresh:60
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
My Sister’s Keeper takes on a very tough subject, but ultimately it is too soft, too easy, and it dissolves like a tear-soaked tissue.
06/26/09
Top CriticMy Sister’s Keeper ducks some of the bigger moral dilemmas, which may have added more grit. There again this is not a film with grit on its mind, just how quickly it can have you reaching for a handkerchief.
07/03/09
This medical-ethics drama is like a sustained assault on the tear ducts.
07/03/09
A mostly contrived and uneven drama that lacks nuances and fails to pack an emotional punch, but at least it's mildly engaging thanks to warm, heartfelt performances and exquisite cinematography.
06/26/09
I have a heart. I just don’t want schlock.
06/29/09
Where restraint might have raised up My Sister's Keeper, a heavy hand has brought it down.
07/01/09
The obnoxious calculation smothers what should’ve been a pure articulation of melancholy and a potent debate of morality.
07/27/09
For every instant of genuine tragic ache within this dubious feature, there are two served up right behind it that drip with obnoxious manipulation and creaky execution.
06/25/09
A shamelessly manipulative film that proves insulting rather than moving.
06/25/09
My Sister's Keeper demands nothing less than a tidal wave of tears.
11/28/09
With direction this leaden and scripting this ham-fisted, my suspicion is that there will be far too many dry eyes in the house.
07/03/09
My Sister's Keeper takes a compelling ethical dilemma and turns it into formulaic pap by trying relentlessly to ensure an emotional reaction with sentimental exploitation and plot contrivances.
06/26/09
It's a family melodrama that never misses the opportunity for a heartbreaking, acoustic musical montage that brims with portent, as if we could forget that losing a child is hard and terrible.
06/25/09
I felt manipulated.
06/29/09
Like an amalgam of every "ABC After-School Special" ever made ... makes most Lifetime Channel movies seem competent by comparison.
06/25/09
You should consent to having treacle intravenously injected into your system sooner than go to see this Hollywood weepie.
07/03/09
Once the bizarre premise is established, all the movie can do is wait for the story to play out -- it has a beginning and end, but no middle.
06/25/09
Top CriticLike a Lifetime disease-of-the-week movie on steroids...tugs at your heartstrings so relentlessly that by the time it's over you might require a defibrillator.
06/24/09
Surrounding and ultimately subsuming this ethical struggle is a fair amount of pediatric-cancer horror and mush, though Cassavetes is frequently bailed out by his cast.
06/25/09
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