Movie review: 'My Sister's Keeper'
My Sister’s Keeper
2.5 stars
Directed by Nick Cassavetes
Based on the novel by Jodi Picoult
Starring Abigail Breslin, Cameron Diaz, Sofia Vassilieva, Jason Patric, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack
By Mina Hochberg
On the one hand, “My Sister’s Keeper” is a wrenching drama that explores provocative notions about the human capacity — or more specifically, incapacity — to accept death. On the other hand, the movie features a doctor who offers a dying girl a last chance at life, and his name is (seriously) Dr. Chance.
“My Sister’s Keeper,” adapted from Jodi Picoult’s bestselling novel, is shamelessly, heavyhandedly devastating. You wish you could shake director Nick Cassavetes, who also directed “The Notebook,” by his shirt lapels and ask why he is so intensely focused on making his viewers cry. As excessively lugubrious as “My Sister’s Keeper” is, though, its potent emotions and moral explorations have undeniable heft.
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