It would take a heart of stone not to be affected by My Sister’s Keeper, but the film’s unceasing manipulation has a Medusa effect on the organ.
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06/25/09
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
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
My Sister's Keeper doesn't pull any punches, and it doesn't tell any lies, and it earns every feeling and thought and memory it brings to the audience.
06/25/09
an overly sentimental movie-of-the-week, masquerading as counterprogramming to Michael Bay's box-office-blasting robots.
06/25/09
Unsubtleties be damned, our defenses fall. Meanwhile, Cassavetes' reign as the go-to waterworks man remains uncontested.
06/25/09
It's a family melodrama that never misses the opportunity for a heartbreaking, acoustic musical montage that brims with portent, as if we could forget that losing a child is hard and terrible.
06/25/09
Surrounding and ultimately subsuming this ethical struggle is a fair amount of pediatric-cancer horror and mush, though Cassavetes is frequently bailed out by his cast.
06/25/09
Like an amalgam of every "ABC After-School Special" ever made ... makes most Lifetime Channel movies seem competent by comparison.
06/25/09
My Sister’s Keeper is an immediate audience-grabber.
06/25/09
Top CriticFor every instant of genuine tragic ache within this dubious feature, there are two served up right behind it that drip with obnoxious manipulation and creaky execution.
06/25/09
Top CriticA shamelessly manipulative film that proves insulting rather than moving.
06/25/09
Ttries so hard to check in with everybody (dad, brother, sister, mom, etc.) that it doesn't get close enough to anyone.
06/25/09
Could easily have had the disease-of-the-week feel of a TV movie. But Cassavetes isn't afraid to tackle stories in which feelings trump ideas.
06/25/09
The infuriating cop–out ending reduces the premise to mush.
06/25/09
Cassavetes has unexpectedly toned down the over-the-top series of twists from the novel’s last third, though restraint is still a relative concept.
06/25/09
A lot of things don't work that well in My Sister's Keeper, a tearjerker adapted from Jodi Picoult's best-seller. But one thing is guaranteed: The movie practically forces you to shed a tear or two.
06/24/09
Like a Lifetime disease-of-the-week movie on steroids...tugs at your heartstrings so relentlessly that by the time it's over you might require a defibrillator.
06/24/09
Films that present a moral dilemma and make us consider the unthinkable are as rare as bargain popcorn in the summer. Cassavetes manages that feat and turns this weeper into a keeper.
06/24/09
The writing team of Jeremy Leven and director Cassavetes have joined forces with a great cast to bring the best-selling book by Jodi Picoult to life with a purity that can only be called inspirational.
06/24/09
While this little wrencher works, cinematically, perfectly well, the truth is, this one is going to piss off a whole lot of people.
06/24/09
Makeup department realism alone can't redeem the dramatic fallacies surrounding it.
06/24/09
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