Starring: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Sofia Vassilieva
Director: Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook, John Q)
Running Time: 1 hr 46 min
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Budget: $60 million
Critics’ Thumbs up: 48%
“…heartfelt and deeply affecting.” Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
“Has a gutsy premise, but no guts.” Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Loosely based on Jodi Picoult’s best-selling novel, My Sister’s Keeper excels in inducing the tear ducts by telling the story of Kate, a teenage girl (Vassilieva) dying of leukemia, but it fails to stimulate any other emotions. Its biggest flaw is failing to address the perplexing questions of morality that arise when the younger sister (Breslin) who was conceived to save Kate refuses to give a kidney and instead hires a hotshot lawyer (Baldwin) to get her medical emancipation. There’s some good performances by Breslin, Vassilieva and Diaz (who proves she can do drama), but Cassavetes pushes the sentimentality way too much through its cloying montages and not-so-subtle sappy songs.
My Sister’s Keeper
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Sofia VassilievaDirector: Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook, John Q)Running Time: 1 hr 46 minRelease Date: June 26, 2009Budget: $60 millionCritics’ Thumbs up: 48%“…heartfelt and deeply affecting.” Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal“Has a gutsy premise, but no guts.” Mick LaSalle, San Francisco ChronicleLoosely based on Jodi Picoult’s best-selling novel, My Sister’s Keeper excels in inducing the tear ducts by telling the story of Kate, a teenage girl (Vassilieva) dying of leukemia, but it fails to stimulate any other emotions. Its biggest flaw is failing to address the perplexing questions of morality that arise when the…
