- MY SISTER’S KEEPER 2009 (DVD MOVIE)
SARA AND BRIAN FITZGERALD’S LIFE WITH THEIR YOUNG SON AND THEIR TWO-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, KATE, IS FOREVER ALTERED WHEN THEY LEARN THAT KATE HAS LEUKEMIA. THE PARENTS’ ONLY HOPE IS TO CONCEIVE ANOTHER CHILD, SPECIFICALLY INTENDED TO SAVE KATE’S LIFE.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
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March 24, 2008
#1
I am soooooo disappointed in this purchase. The movie was wrapped in any protective wrapping. Someone pinched too hard through the envelope. so the movie pacjking was ruined. The movie had been a “rental”!!!! This was a Christmas gift ! I had purchased 5 other videos and they were alll gift worthy, but not from this one vendor. I will be very careful next time, Buyer BeWare !!!!!
March 24, 2008
#2
It was all a bit gross looking at this cadaverous, graying, retching child wasting away, suffering at the hands of her mother’s obssesive wish to keep her alive on a puppet string. I thought the mother (Cameron Diaz) was mildly sadistic, prolonging her family and her child’s suffering (she wasn’t supposed to live past age 5 if not for her newborn’s sister’s organ donations) to the point where I just couldn’t root for the mother’s cause anymore. Her child was no longer living a real life but ekeing out an existence of misery and physical pain with occassional swathes of happiness as the disease wracked her body way and the mother forced it past its expiration date, threatening the sanity of the rest of the family. And that horrible doctor! He was one of the authors of it all pushing the family to their utmost limits to save a child (without alleviating her pain) who was inevitably bound to die young.
The person who loved best was indeed the baby sister who only did what she did to fulfill her sisters last wishes.
March 25, 2008
#3
I was enjoying this movie — until I got to the ending. In the book, the ending was a stunner: surprising and very thought-provoking. I have no idea why they decided to alter the ending which, in my opinion, totally ruined the movie. Do yourself a favor and read the book instead.
March 25, 2008
#4
I was sooooo disappointed in this movie. The book was my favorite book ever, and the ending is what made the book so great. The movie changed the ending and made it a cliche. All in all, I thought the movie seemed twice as long as it was. I took a friend with me, and she liked it, but she hadn’t read the book. What a letdown!
March 25, 2008
#5
The movie arrrived in a timely manner…howerver toward the end of the movie it would get stuck and I could not fast forward or reverse it so I could not see the ending.. I had read the book first and was told the ending was totaly different in the movie so I was dissapointed to not see it..but I was told how the movie ended..I probably should have written the seller about this first but didn’t…I apologize for not doing that first.