My Sister's Keeper

Get your box of tissues ready because it is impossible to watch My Sister's Keeper without getting emotional. The plot of the movie is easy to follow and the film does a superb job of portraying the struggles that people with cancer have to face before death. Cameron Diaz along with the other actors all give such stellar performances and even won a Grammy for their roles in this movie. Even though this is an extremely sad film, it is a motivating story and I highly recommend watching it.

I don't really get how being an orchestrated tear-jerker, as one reviewer said (I'm not picking on him/her, it was just worded well) is a bad thing. Sometimes people just want to cry. And if you want to cry, you should watch this. It really does hold your hand but it gets you involved emotionally. Decent performances, decent music, decent questions asked. No, it's not amazing but it's damn good.

Let us wallow in weakness and bask in banality, for here we have an unfiltered feast of cancerous curses. Even death has no dignity once these tragedy tourists are done with their crying crusade

not really even nice just sad

Both Alec Baldwin and Abigail Breslin hold their own when they get screen time but it would be hard to see that as Nick Cassavetes was much more focused on bringing out the water works. Your hand is held throughout and nothing is interpreted hence the constant narration. Be prepared to cringe at the song choices. What a self indulged piece of crap.

Mistake - In the scene where Cameron Diaz and her husband are talking to the doctor in a flashback, her hair repeatedly goes from behind her shoulders to in front. it is especially obvious when at one point she turns towards her husband and her hair completely changes position.

So I was wrong in one respect-- it's never unintentionally funny or even intentionally (I'm kind of sad about both), but it was certainly buoyed by great supporting work from Jason Patric and Alec Baldwin who thoroughly humanize under written characters. Diaz, somehow, despite her forcefulness remains the film's weak link. If you've got an Achilles heel for anything even tangentially related to "The Notebook" (this film shares that film's director) then this film is probably for you.

Great casting, but sadly disappointing. A warm, heart-felt movie for everyone to see; it could have done without the cheesy voice-overs, though . . . it somewhat ruined the movie for me.

A recipe for a Lifetime Channel movie, with an extra cup of butter in Caleb Deschanel's lighting. Outside of the never-say-die mother, the drama is designed for minimum stickiness and maximum lubrication. Indeed, the dilemma could have been cleared up with a simple family conference in lieu of a court date. Compared with the other tearjerking tactics, the interlude of teen romance between the sick sister and a fellow cancer patient is persuasively gentle.

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Interesting story, and probably a tear-jerker for the ladies. Liked Alex Baldwins performance. An ok movie overall, with some emotional moments (duh).

The only good thing I can say is that the acting is very strong.

Very touching and thought provoking movie. I liked that it explored the ethics of having a child in order to save an older sibling - and did it from the child's point of view. Be forewarned though, if you do get sucked in by this movie like I did...have some tissues handy.

This film is the first thing I think of when I think of movies that are manufactured tear jerkers. The trite, ancillary narration; the cancer patient lead, the pointless romance subplot, etc. Pretty much every scene of this shit I was rolling my eyes at how hackneyed and overwrought it all was. I just can't take these cheap, amateurish attempts at poignancy seriously.

There's enough hooey-gooey mush in My Sister's Keeper that the film might as well be the poster-child movie to sponsor Kleenex. Some of this is over-the-top, but most of it is well-acted and works well when time is given to the individual characters. Overall, I thought it was a solid emotional rollercoaster movie for mothers all over, and it just barely manages to cross that Lifetime Original barrier.

My Sister's Keeper has heart and features moments of undeniable emotion. Sadly one too many melodramatic moments spoil what should and could of been a worthy film adaption of a much more meaningful novel. The miss matched cast is of mixed quality. Diaz and Baldwin infuriate. Whilst Breslin gives a convincing performance and Jason Patric is superb. His understated but believable performance is the back bone of the film and he's the only part of this adaption that feels believable or relatable.

This could have been non-forcibly sad but this film leans back and just jams it in your throat. The mom is so awful sometimes it's scary and the entire situation is built around crafting sadnesses rather than possessing actual ones or giving them fluidly to the viewer.

Very touching,love it,treats death lightly.

a four and half hankie tearjerker. well worth seeing for some great performances. strongly recommended.

sad but good movie

not bad

Gdybym nie wiedzial, ze jest ksiazka i gdyby mi jej nie opowiedziano... ...ale ogolnie w lepszej polowce.

This film literally reverses the ironic plot twist at the end of the novel. As the father of Dewey Cox would say: the wrong one died. Once again, Hollywood settles for easy tears instead of an ending that is tougher and ultimately more meaningful. But see the film anyway: there is lots of good acting in the service of some interesting ideas about parenting, medical responsibility, and what it is, exactly, that siblings owe each other.

Interesting story, boring film.

01.03.2016, Yurt

Presumo que seja isso que assistimos na sessão da tarde quando estamos gripados e não queremos pensar. Nick, você não merece o pai que teve. TV aberta.

A box set of hallmark movies escaped, mutated and somehow ended up on the big screen

An example of a film where too many emotional devices become unbearable. Too forced, too cheesy and too sad. Good for people who like this sort of film, but really not my cup of tea.

I thought everyone was great expect Cameron Diaz she was not. This was one of the saddest movies i ever seen.

"My Sister's Keeper suffers from sheer sloppiness of script that results in scenes of comedic frivolity coming off as screechingly forced." - Ryan Stewart

Alec Baldwin dressed as a pompous lawyer with a gay looking dog driving in slow motion out of the driveway while stupid emotional music plays? That scene summed it up for me. This is ridiculously forced and melodramatic. Just a painfully directed, hamfisted film for unintelligent middle aged women.

31aug2009 totally agree with pompousass' review. The original book writer has written a lot of courtroom books, and I think the courtroom part (with the exentric Lawyer and his dog) wasn't really required. But hey, can you imagine chick-flics without pets?

This film would be better if Nick's dad directed it, but nonetheless, a tender piece on human independence.

I sometimes love to watch good sad movies, it reminds me some humanity.

I liked this more than I had thought I would. It did a good job of giving all the characters a voice and while I did expect a twist, I did not expect the one we actually got. On the other hand, the jumps in time made it a bit hard to follow and the Taylor really subtracted from the movie.

An ultimately depressing story about a family trying to cope with a situation where one of their daughters is suffering from a deadly strain of leukemia. Despite some positively touching scenes between the family members, the movie suffers from a nihilistic humanist tone that results in a depressing ending.

May be very worthwhile - but a film about children dieing from leukaemia and family discord was not my idea of enjoyment.

There were moments that felt incredibly realistic and it brought out some deep emotions, and there were other times when it felt like just another Hollywood movie designed to try and make a poignant point. There is enough talent in the cast that it should have never felt that way because given the story it could have done a better job focusing on subtlety instead of having to blatantly state the obvious.

Don't forget the kleenex on this one. To be fair, the plot blurb is a little off putting, but this movie shines. Great for girl's night in. Very good acting by all involved.

I was watching this movie a little reticent. A drama movie with Cameron Diaz. But I was surprised. Sure, it's a movie melodramatic and many people will cry. Call me faggot, including me LOL. But the story also has interesting questions involved, good movie.