My Sister’s Keeper (2009) 7/10

Starring : Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Jason Patric, Sofia Vassilieva, Heather Wahlquist, Joan Cusack
Director : Nick Cassavetes
Running Time : 109 mins

Eleven year old Anna Fitzgerald (Breslin) has always known that the only reason she was ever born was so that her parents Sara (Diaz) and Brian (Patric) could use her for “spare parts” for their eldest daughter Kate (Vassilieva), who is dying of cancer. One day she decides that enough is enough and makes contact with top lawyer Campbell Alexander (Baldwin) in the hopes of winning medical emancipation from her parents so that she doesn’t have to go through anymore unnecessary surgeries.

This movie uses the lazy choice of flashbacks to show how cancer has affected the members of the Fitzgerald family over the years, though the idea of a child suing their parents so they don’t have to have surgeries to help save their sibling is an interesting one. It’s a little annoying that Vassilieva is so far down the billing considering her pivotal and emotional role in this film, but as usual the director chooses to concentrate on Breslin, who is okay but nothing special.

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