My Sister's Keeper (Blu-ray, Includes Digital Copy) PG-13
A tale of life, love, and letting go.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 17, 2009
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin & Abigail Breslin | |
| Performer: | Sofia Vassilieva, Joan Cusack, Jason Patric, Thomas Dekker, Emily Deschanel & Lin Shaye | |
| Directed by | Nick Cassavetes | |
| Screenwriting by | Jeremy Leven & Nick Cassavetes | |
| Composition by | Aaron Zigman | |
| Produced by | Mark Johnson, Chuck Pacheco & Scott L. Goldman | |
| Director of Photography: | Caleb Deschanel | |
| Executive Production by | Diana Pokorny, Stephen Furst, Mendel Tropper, Meredith Finn & Mark Kaufman |
Entertainment Reviews:
48%
72%
It is effective, but only in the most shallow, manipulative way, and results in a cowardly, movie-of-the-week exit that isn't worthy of these engaging sisters.
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WORLD
Rating: 1/5 --
You should consent to having treacle intravenously injected into your system sooner than go to see this Hollywood weepie.
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Times (UK)
By the end we are screaming to yank our engines away from the forecourt as fuel spills - all that piano music, that gilded lighting, those glycerine tears - threatening a pyre of sense, sensibility and supersensitive subject choice.
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Financial Times
Rating: 1/5 --
This medical-ethics drama is like a sustained assault on the tear ducts.
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Independent (UK)
Yes, unabashed weeper My Sister's Keeper has that Hollywood sheen -- but it's the unexpectedly piercing realness of this family's anguish that's going to get you. Just try to hold back the waterworks.
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Georgia Straight
Rating: C --
The film has its flaws and swims in meticulously crafted schmaltz... yet also has well-conceived tender moments hiding in the fringes.
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Cinemalogue
[T]he best performance comes from Diaz, who eclipses her previous heavy roles and pulls off the tricky determined mother persona without turning impassioned care into grating shrillness.
Movieline
Product Description:
THE NOTEBOOK's Nick Cassavetes directs another tearjerking literary adaptation with this drama based on Jodi Picoult's novel. Cameron Diaz takes a detour from comedy to play Sara, the domineering mother of Kate (Sofia Vassilieva, MEDIUM), a young girl with cancer. Sara’s other daughter, 11-year-old Anna (Abigail Breslin), was conceived just to serve as a donor for her sick sister. On the outskirts of the family are father Brian (Jason Patric), who feels unable to stand up to his wife’s strength, and son Jesse (Evan Ellingson), who craves attention in the face of Kate’s illness. But the complicated situation gets more difficult when Anna hires a lawyer (played by the always excellent Alec Baldwin), so that she can control her own body and say "no" to giving a kidney to her sister.
Cassavetes and Picoult both traffic in tears, so MY SISTER’S KEEPER is a perfect match between director and source writer. Even the most jaded viewers will find it hard to keep their eyes dry in the face of this emotional family tragedy, so audiences are warned to have tissues parked next to their popcorn. This drama’s stellar cast also includes Thomas Dekker as Kate’s cancer-stricken love and Joan Cusack as the judge who presides over Anna’s case.
Cassavetes and Picoult both traffic in tears, so MY SISTER’S KEEPER is a perfect match between director and source writer. Even the most jaded viewers will find it hard to keep their eyes dry in the face of this emotional family tragedy, so audiences are warned to have tissues parked next to their popcorn. This drama’s stellar cast also includes Thomas Dekker as Kate’s cancer-stricken love and Joan Cusack as the judge who presides over Anna’s case.
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