This book hasn’t been adapted, it’s been taken outside and shot.
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06/25/09
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
Wailing and screaming and fighting with everyone else onscreen, Cameron Diaz is giving a powerhouse performance her character doesn't warrant.
06/25/09
...a blatant 10 hanky weeper masquerading as something deeper, but it does some things well in spite of itself.
06/25/09
It would take a heart of stone not to be affected by My Sister’s Keeper, but the film’s unceasing manipulation has a Medusa effect on the organ.
06/25/09
My Sister's Keeper doesn't pull any punches, and it doesn't tell any lies, and it earns every feeling and thought and memory it brings to the audience.
06/25/09
an overly sentimental movie-of-the-week, masquerading as counterprogramming to Michael Bay's box-office-blasting robots.
06/25/09
Unsubtleties be damned, our defenses fall. Meanwhile, Cassavetes' reign as the go-to waterworks man remains uncontested.
06/25/09
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
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
Like an amalgam of every "ABC After-School Special" ever made ... makes most Lifetime Channel movies seem competent by comparison.
06/25/09
My Sister’s Keeper is an immediate audience-grabber.
06/25/09
Top CriticFor 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
Ttries so hard to check in with everybody (dad, brother, sister, mom, etc.) that it doesn't get close enough to anyone.
06/25/09
Could easily have had the disease-of-the-week feel of a TV movie. But Cassavetes isn't afraid to tackle stories in which feelings trump ideas.
06/25/09
The infuriating cop–out ending reduces the premise to mush.
06/25/09
Top CriticCassavetes has unexpectedly toned down the over-the-top series of twists from the novel’s last third, though restraint is still a relative concept.
06/25/09
A lot of things don't work that well in My Sister's Keeper, a tearjerker adapted from Jodi Picoult's best-seller. But one thing is guaranteed: The movie practically forces you to shed a tear or two.
06/24/09
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
Films that present a moral dilemma and make us consider the unthinkable are as rare as bargain popcorn in the summer. Cassavetes manages that feat and turns this weeper into a keeper.
06/24/09
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