It's very emotional and often touching, but it's also got chemo, bone marrow extractions and a nihilistic view of death.
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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
The weepfest movie of the summer, but it has more going for it than that.
06/26/09
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 humanizes vexing questions about medical ethics without sacrificing rattling family drama.
06/26/09
Although the compelling courtroom drama gets forgotten for much of the movie, My Sister's Keeper also is relatively realistic about the physical and emotional toll of disease.
06/26/09
My Sister’s Keeper is a rare tearjerker where the viewer doesn’t feel jerked around (most of the time).
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 isn't quite a keeper, but it's a sturdy melodrama that earns those copious tears.
06/26/09
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
For 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
Faced with a clear choice between an entirely original story and one told a thousand times before, director and co-writer Nick Cassavetes takes the easy, well trodden path.
06/26/09
An adaptation that, although departing dramatically from such key elements as the book's ending, will please fans.
06/26/09
An outrageous Lifetime Television courthouse drama, constructed in the artful style of a Sundance drama...
06/26/09
[L]ike that last rush of endorphins they tell us floods our bodies to prepare us for death... [W]ants you to sob, but with bittersweet acceptance and saccharine grief, not with rage or anger or denial...
06/26/09
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
Parental Content Review
06/26/09
What an agonizing, misguided, maudlin mess!
06/26/09
If My Sister's Keeper feels melodramatic and contrived, it is, at least, sincerely so.
06/26/09
My Sister's Keeper has a gutsy premise, but no guts.
06/26/09
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