My Sister's Keeper [2009] (DVD)

Film Only ~~~~~~ My Sister's Keeper is the only Jodi Picoult novel I have read so when the film adapted from the 2004 novel was showing at the cinema I had to go along out of curiousity to see if the adaption was any good. The story concerns the Fitzpatrick family who are overcome by the leukemia that has persistently afflicted Kate since she was two years old. Kate's mother, Sara, a bright, intelligent lawyer gave up her career to commit herself to caring for her daughter in the hope to save her child from the raging cancer. Kate's father, Brian is a fireman; a forceful and loving person but sometimes is so drained with his own emotions that ...  Read the complete review

I am still battling with a cold and just wanted to watch something that wasn't too action packed or violent. I had seen an advert on TV for the release of the film My Sister's Keeper and decided that I would give this a watch, all I knew was that it was based on a novel but really had no idea what the exact plot was about. However, had I known the plot I might have rethought this choice for the particular day I watched it as it did end up being rather intense and about nothing I had assumed it would be about. This film is based on Jodi Picoult's novel of the same name which I had at one time wanted to read. Anna (Abigail Breslin) is conceived by fertilization ...  Read the complete review

By its very nature, this film was created to manipulate you. The plight of a mother trying to save her dying child is a universal one. Of course, the lengths that this particular mother goes to is somewhat questionable, which makes for one of the central plot points of this film. Based on the book by Jodi Picoult, the story was adapted for film by Jeremy Leven. Told from the point of view of each family member, this film tells the story about a girl named Kate who is dying of leukaemia. For 13 years, and for all of her young life, younger sister Anna has been a virtual guinea pig as mother Sara battles on to find a cure for Kate. It is explained early on ...  Read the complete review

My sister keeper is director Nick Cassavetes' latest offering after his critically acclaimed Alpha Dog and hugely popular The Notebook. Nick sticks to his strength-unfolding an emotional drama on screen. If notebook was for lovers,this one is certainly for the families(which is a rarity in today's hollywood) My Sister's keeper is a story of a family of 5.The film starts with Anna(Abigail Breslin) narrating her journey into this world,letting us know that she was genetically engineered so that her blood cells can be used to treat her elder sister who suffered from leukemia-a form of cancer. The audience is at a fix when young Anna goes to a lawyer ...  Read the complete review

Anna Fitgerald was born for the sole purpose of being a donor for her older sister who has leukemia. She was genetically conceived so she would be a 100% match and from the moment she was born she was donoting blood, cells and body parts to her. At eleven years old Anna has had enough of her parents taking what is rightfully hers and sets out to sue her parents so they can't take another thing from her. I usually love films that are full of action and blood and gore so I really didn't think this would be for me at all but it did something to me that I haven't done for a long time; I cried in fact I bawled. I cried so much throughtout this film that I was left ...  Read the complete review