A tear-fest medical drama that seems much longer than it is.
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07/03/09
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
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Reviews Counted:124
Fresh:58
Rotten:66
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: My Sister's Keeper gets fine performances from its adult and child actors, but the director's heavy-handed approach turns a worthy emotional subject into an overly melodramatic tearjerker.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jul 30, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $49,069,310
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Sofia Vassilieva
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Reviews for My Sister's Keeper
...a high-class tear-jerker thanks to an intelligent script...sensitive direction...and strong performances...
07/03/09
Diaz is a whiny irrelevance, but sharp supporting work from Alec Baldwin and Joan Cusack makes the proceedings tolerable for boyfriends.
07/03/09
You should consent to having treacle intravenously injected into your system sooner than go to see this Hollywood weepie.
07/03/09
Directed by Nick Cassavetes with a syrupiness that would, I imagine, have made his father John smack the New York sidewalks in fury.
07/03/09
It would be tough not to shed a tear for any child forced to look death in the face, but it's also a crying shame that such a delicate matter ends up being treated with an uncertain heavy hand.
07/03/09
Full of clunky voiceovers, corny music and maudlin montages, this manipulative yarn plays with issues of medical morality and parental duty only to discard them in favour of a manipulative paean to valuing life and accepting death.
07/03/09
With direction this leaden and scripting this ham-fisted, my suspicion is that there will be far too many dry eyes in the house.
07/03/09
A very satisfying, if emotionally draining, experience. Needless to say you should take a large box of hankies - plus a bottle of water so you can rehydrate afterwards.
07/03/09
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.
07/03/09
This medical-ethics drama is like a sustained assault on the tear ducts.
07/03/09
My Sister’s Keeper ducks some of the bigger moral dilemmas, which may have added more grit. There again this is not a film with grit on its mind, just how quickly it can have you reaching for a handkerchief.
07/03/09
My Sister’s Keeper becomes a well-heeled weepie in which the family’s comfortable existence, despite the misfortunes of fate, is hardly challenged at all.
07/03/09
This movie cheapens the experience of a family struggling to come to terms with the impending loss of a loved one. Cry? I very nearly did. Just not in the way Cameron probably hoped.
07/03/09
The acting is excellent, but I can't say that My Sister's Keeper provides anything more than the standard TV movie ...
07/02/09
Where restraint might have raised up My Sister's Keeper, a heavy hand has brought it down.
07/01/09
Top CriticWhat might have been a pretty heady work quickly gives way to shameless manipulation and a screenplay that's both sloppy and contrived.
06/30/09
The movie is a wafer thin translation of a really good book
06/29/09
...will relieve six months worth of tears for audiences willing to take its cathartic journey.
06/29/09
I found the movie to be really tough and challenging and enjoyable.
06/29/09
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