MY SISTER’S KEEPER

Josephine Talitha

XII IPA

MY SISTER’S KEEPER• Directed by : Nick Cassavetes • Produced by : Stephen Furst

Scott Goldman Mark Johnson Chuck Pacheco Mendel Tropper

• Based on : My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult• Starring : Cameron Diaz

Abigail Breslin Sofia Vassilieva Alec Baldwin Jason Patric E.G. Daily Lin Shaye Thomas Dekker Emily Deschanel Joan Cusack Luke Wilson

• The movie begins with a bit of misdirection when 11-year-old Anna (Abigail Breslin) sues her parents.

• Anna has always known she is a "donor child." When her parents, Sara (Cameron Diaz) and Brian (Jason Patric), discover their first daughter, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), has leukemia, they choose to conceive another child through genetic engineering who would be a perfect genetic match with Kate. Thus, Anna can donate blood or whatever else is necessary to keep her elder sister alive.

• The two girls love each other dearly, so Anna never complains. Then, 11 years into this routine, Kate's kidneys are failing and she'll need one of Anna's. Anna finally says no. She hires a big-shot lawyer (Alec Baldwin), whose face adorns billboards and buses all over Los Angeles, and goes to court seeking her "medical emancipation." But her mom, who gave up a law practice to care for her ailing daughter, will make a ferocious opponent.

• In the end of this movie, Kate dies. But the family move on and have a great life together.

• This movie is great because, the actors’ performance is excellent, the story is good, and it has moral education, most of the film is about family’s matters. This movie has personally touched my heart.

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