Synopsis
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The parents' desperate decision raises both ethical and moral questions and rips away at the foundation of their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart, while revealing surprising truths that challenge everyone's perceptions of love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing.
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Cast
- Cameron DiazSara Fitzgerald
- Abigail BreslinAndromeda "Anna" Fitzgerald
- Sofia VassilievaKate Fitzgerald
- Alec BaldwinCampbell Alexander
- Jason PatricBrian Fitzgerald
- Joan CusackJudge De Salvo
- Emily DeschanelDr. Farquad
- Heather WahlquistAunt Kelly
- Evan EllingsonJesse Fitzgerald
- Frank CassavetesGus
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie never says so, but it's a practical parable about the debate between pro-choice and pro-life. If you're pro-life, you would require Anna to donate her kidney, although there is a chance she could die, and her sister doesn't have a good prognosis. If you're pro-choice, you would support Anna's lawsuit. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
If you're going to make a weepy, there's no reason you can't make it with intelligence and insight as the makers of My Sister's Keeper have done. - 50
Variety
Unsubtle, uneven and undeniably effective, this take-no-prisoners cancer weepie poses a fascinating moral quandary. - 50
Village Voice
You don't usually see this unblinking attention to the progress of physical decay in a PG-13 wide-release movie, and to the degree that it represents a real aspect of human experience generally curtained out of sight, it is, in the language of movie people, a brave decision. But makeup department realism alone can't redeem the dramatic fallacies surrounding it. - 50
Austin Chronicle
Anyone who watched (and probably wept his or her way through) the swoony 2004 melodrama "The Notebook" knows Cassavetes is not a man to leave a spot of sap untapped, and in My Sister's Keeper, he pulls out a very big drill indeed. - 50
Chicago Tribune
The harder this assault weapon went at my tear ducts, the more duct tape I wrapped around them as a defensive measure. - 50
Miami Herald
You might call My Sister's Keeper manipulative, and you would not be inaccurate. - 50
Boston Globe
A pall of disaster, in fact, hangs over everyone in this shapeless, hankie-wringing adaptation of the best-selling Jodi Picoult novel.
