So I wasn't planning on watching this movie, or any movie for that matter, but I had wanted to watch this movie when it came out (on my birthday by the way) almost three years ago. But I was just flipping through channels and came across My Sister's Keeper on Lifetime litterally right as it was starting so I decided to watch it.
My Sister's Keeper stars Cameron Diaz (from such films as The Mask '94, There's Something About Mary '98, and the Shrek films), Abagail Breslin (seen in Little Miss Sunshine '06 and Zombieland '09) Alec Balwin (Beatlejuice '88 and the tv show 30 Rock '06) and Sofia Vassilieva (who I recognized from the show Medium '05).
The story follows a family of five who's middle child Kate has a rare form of leukemia. When she was diagnosed as a child her parents decided to basically engineer a third child for donations (such as bone marrow, cord cells, and white blood cells). When Kate is 15 and the third born, named Anna, is 11 Kate is still unfortunately still sick and in need of a kidney transplant from her sister. However, Anna has basically had enough and goes to lawyer Campbell Alexander (Baldwin) to represent her in a law suit against her parent to gain medical emancipation- in other words, Anna wants to be in control of her own body and not have to donate to her sister anymore. As the movie progresses we see the battles between child and parent, along with the ups and downs of chemo and radiation and even first love.
I think this movie would make anyone cry, there were several parts that I was basically a blubbering mess, but for me this hit close to home. When I was young my best friend was diagnosed with ALL Leukemia so I saw the ups and downs of the disease. Luckily my best friend went into remission rather fast and is now 23 and living a great life. But the movie, and anything that does deal with the disease, pulls at my heart string more than any other. It causes me to think of what could have happened.
Anyways, back to the film... I don't think that there was any part of this film that was not well done. There is so much love through out and moved me like no other has in a long time. I HIGHLY recomend this movie for anyone with a heart, sould, liver. Ha ha! Also, this movie is based off a book by Jodi Picoult of the some name. So if you have any interest in reading the book, or you are in the process of reading it right now, DO NOT read the trivia on IMDb. I'm not going to say what it says as to not spoil anything, but in the trivia section not only does it spoil the ending of the movie, which is fine by me because I had just finished watching the movie so I already knew how it ended, but it also spoils how the book ends which does differ. I greatly like the end of the movie better so I'm no longer sure if I want to read the book, while i was very interested before hand. I may still read it but who know.
Either way the rest of you should see this film. But my suggestion is to be prepared: Girls, don't wear much make-up as it will be ruined and anyone who sees this should have a LARGE box of tissues nearby.
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