Where restraint might have raised up My Sister's Keeper, a heavy hand has brought it down.
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07/01/09
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:13
Rotten:18
Average Rating:5.8/10
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
Top CriticI found the movie to be really tough and challenging and enjoyable.
06/29/09
Top CriticI have a heart. I just don’t want schlock.
06/29/09
Top CriticMy Sister's Keeper targets tear ducts so ruthlessly, it might as well be sponsored by Kleenex.
06/26/09
Top CriticUneven but deeply moving.
06/26/09
Top CriticA surprisingly lovely movie about an absolutely awful subject, My Sister's Keeper features what also may be the year's first performance worthy of Oscar mention.
06/26/09
Top CriticMy 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 humanizes vexing questions about medical ethics without sacrificing rattling family drama.
06/26/09
Top CriticWith 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
Top CriticFor all its awkward structure, the film is heartfelt and deeply affecting.
06/26/09
Top CriticMy 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
Top CriticAn adaptation that, although departing dramatically from such key elements as the book's ending, will please fans.
06/26/09
Top CriticMy Sister's Keeper has a gutsy premise, but no guts.
06/26/09
Top CriticMy Sister's Keeper offers a couple of twists, one of them crucial and the other cruelly unnecessary and melodramatic.
06/26/09
Top CriticTheir message in My Sister's Keeper? Cancer sucks, but there's always the balm of beach scenes and an emo soundtrack.
06/26/09
Top CriticOnce 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 CriticA moving story, but the film's overly romantic tone rings hollow.
06/25/09
Top CriticDon't avoid My Sister's Keeper because it's a film about a serious issue. Avoid it because it approaches that issue like a very special episode of Grey's Anatomy -- complete with whining pop songs and all the comforts of cliche.
06/25/09
Top CriticA shameless attempt at manipulation that wants but doesn't earn audience tears.
06/25/09
Top CriticYou may cry at the film's designated crying times, approximately every 10 minutes, like the traffic and weather. Or you may not, and wonder instead why some high-gloss weepies treat their source material quite so shamelessly.
06/25/09
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