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List Price: $35.99 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 1636
Released: November 17, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 11/17/2009 Run time: 110 minutes Rating: Pg13
Description of My Sister's Keeper [Blu-ray]:
Grab a box of tissues and settle in for a heart-wrenching exploration of illness, morality, and familial bonds in this excellent screen adaptation of bestselling author Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper. When parents Sara (Cameron Diaz) and Brian Fitzgerald (Jason Patric) find out that their daughter Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) has leukemia, they make the difficult choice to utilize the advancements of modern medicine and impregnate Sara with a child genetically ensured to be a donor match for Kate. Throughout the many years of dealing with Kate's illness, the needs of individual family members--including Kate's parents, her brother Jesse (Evan Ellingson), and her sister Anna (Abigail Breslin)--are largely ignored in light of Kate's more serious needs. Still, Kate's sister Anna rarely complains about helping Kate, even when it involves undergoing painful bone marrow aspirations. Recently, however, Anna has had a change of heart and has decided to stand up for her right to have a say in medical procedures involving herself: she's enlisted a lawyer, Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin), to help her sue her parents for medical emancipation. The issue is highly emotional and the familial strife is further compounded by the fact that Kate is quickly failing and needs an immediate kidney transplant for even a chance of continued survival. The emotional struggle of dealing with serious illness while trying to meet one's own needs permeates the film, as do the staggering moral dilemmas inherent in the advances of modern medicine. While Picoult's readers may be disappointed that the film doesn't delve as deeply into Anna's and Jesse's characters as the book does, My Sister's Keeper is nonetheless an intensely powerful film bursting with emotion and moral quandary that leaves viewers pondering what lengths they might go to in a similar situation. --Tami Horiuchi
My Sister's Keeper [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Sad Movie 
2009-12-02 - This was a great movie with incredible acting. Have a box of Kleenex on hand before watching. It's a tear jerker.
Good Movie
2009-12-01 - This is such a good movie. Very touching and loving situations involving 2 sisters and their family dealing with cancer and what parents will do to save their child.
Distant, and Not by the Book 
2009-11-29 - I was so excited to see they had made a Jodi Picoult novel into a movie.. I was very disappointed to find the movie was so distant from the characters, and the story line was off. I've read several Jodi Picoult novels.. and the movie portrayal just doesn't do her writing any justice. I watched the movie once, I don't think I ever will again. If you haven't read any of her novels it'd probably be a good watch... if you have I'm sure you would be able to recognize the difference from her writing.
What's With the Ending? 
2009-11-28 - I read the book which was riveting - the issues of medical emancipation, ethics, each character's history was explored. In the movie, each character was represented by 'talk-over', which ruined it. No connection was possible. The ending in the book. which just knocked my socks off . . . was left OUT! That made the entire read and rendered the movie one star. Played frizbee with the CD when it was over. Huge disappointment.
Good but not true to the book. SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!! 
2009-11-27 - This was a good movie and I enjoyed it very much. The problem is that they didn't stay true to the twist at the end of the book. The acting was good, the writing was good except for the end. If you didn't read the book you will love this movie and not scratch your head at the end when the wrong sister dies.
