My Sister's Keeper

[Lennie]

I loved the book (it actually made me cry, not alot of books do), so i am looking forward to seeing the movie

OFFICIAL TRAILER


30 secs trailer



A Short Synopsis
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate - a life and a role that she has never questioned… until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable… a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life… even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less?


Showed some scenes, behind the scenes footage and interviews with the main girls and Alex Baldwin

[Lennie]

Why Cameron Diaz didn't shave her head for 'My Sister's Keeper'

Cameron Diaz plays the tough-as-nails mother of a sick daughter in “My Sister’s Keeper." She gives birth to a second child to provide organ transplants for her ailing eldest. Things get complicated when the second daughter, played by Abigail Breslin, decides to sue her parents, played by Diaz and Jason Patric.

In the admittedly creepy-weepy-sounding but reportedly uplifting film, Diaz's character is seen shaving her head. And as we reported last year, she kinda looks a friendlier Dr. Evil.

But she tells the Dish Rag that she didn't really make the cut. Why? Because she needed to be bald for only one day of shooting. She also didn't wear makeup. "No makeup. It was so fantastic. It was great. It took so much time off of when you have to get up and be ready. No makeup. It was great.

But her 15-year-old costar Sofia Vassilieva totally went for it.

“I have so much respect for this child because she shaved her head when she was 15 years old. She had hair down to here. She shaved her head, she shaved her eyebrows, and she owned it. I mean, she was scared at first. I won’t say that she … she pushed through that fear, and I was just so inspired by her. She was an inspiration to us all. At the end of the day, she’d have the makeup artist paint all these things around her head and paint around her eyes and wear these big these earrings and like big scarves. She just really owned it and sort of made it something special for herself."



To research her role, Cameron talked at The City of Hope with mothers with seriously ill children.

“Although their circumstances might be different, whether it was economics or the dynamics of their families, maybe not married or separated from their husbands or divorced or whatever, the one thing that was the same for all of them was that when you have a sick child, all you do is try to save that child. There’s nothing else. You don’t go, 'Oh, no, it’s OK, don’t worry about it. It will be fine.' Or you don’t say, 'Oh, there’s nothing else we can do? OK, cool.' It’s like there’s a vigilance that these mothers have to take part in and be there 24 hours a day, and they know what treatments their child should be having.”

Because of her unrelenting responsibilities, Sara is often not a particularly sympathetic character.

“She’s a mother who’s trying to save a child and what is she supposed to do?" says Diaz. "You know what I mean? She’s been doing it for a decade now. She’s been trying to keep her child alive. It’s really, really exhausting. It’s no time for her to be apathetic. There’s never a moment that she can just sort of lay down and go, 'No, I don’t give a. ...' There’s just not. Even when she’s in remission, there’s not because you’re always waiting for that moment that happens in the movie where she’s up all night with 103 temperature and she has nose bleeds. I mean, that could happen at any moment."

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[Katy]

I saw the trailer at the cinema last night, it looked really good and a really well filmed film.

[Abbie]

Ooo I always wanted to read the book so I will have to see the film

[StarsOfCCTV]

I really want to see this. I hope it stays true to the book and they don't make a different ending for it. (Those who read the book you know what I mean )

[Lennie]

ET interview with Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin and Sofia V on My Sister's Keeper

[di marco]

i really loved this book so i wanna see the film but i heard they changed the ending which i really hope they didnt as ill be really disappointed cos then it wont be the same at all

Cameron Diaz plays the tough-as-nails mother of a sick daughter in “My Sister’s Keeper." She gives birth to a second child to provide organ transplants for her ailing eldest.

in the book they have an older son as well, is he not in the film?

[Lennie]

i really loved this book so i wanna see the film but i heard they changed the ending which i really hope they didnt as ill be really disappointed cos then it wont be the same at all

Cameron Diaz plays the tough-as-nails mother of a sick daughter in “My Sister’s Keeper." She gives birth to a second child to provide organ transplants for her ailing eldest.

in the book they have an older son as well, is he not in the film?

Yep, Jesse is in the movie, he's played by that guy who plays Kyle in CSI Miami, if you watch that

The only person isnt there from the book is Julia, and also they have got Aunt Kelly for the kids

Pretty sure the ending is different, but i am not too bothered about that much as i understand why they might have changed it (even though the book ending was brilliantly hearbreaking), as along as this movie is brilliant as i hoping it to be

Jodi Picoult has mentioned on her site, why they might have changed the ending due to being made into a movie and what she thought of the movie when she saw it

[StarsOfCCTV]

But the ending is what made the book... Not all movies can have happy endings. I hope it isn't too different....

[tammyy2j]

Moviemaker Nick Cassavetes has heaped praise on Cameron Diaz for her portrayal as a young mum with a sick daughter - because the actress brought back memories of his own health crisis as a young father.

Cassavetes knew casting Diaz as a mum in hard-hitting drama My Sister's Keeper would be criticised, but he urges those who feel she isn't up for such a tough role to check out the upcoming movie - and weep.

He tells WENN, "Yes, she's never played a mother and she's playing a mother of three in this movie but that didn't scare me. I knew she was up for it. I'm more proud of her performance in the film than I am proud of things in my life."

Recalling his own daughter's battle with heart problems, the director adds, "When I was a young man my second daughter was diagnosed with congenital heart disease when she was a week old. When I was young the world was wide open before me and I was a happy guy. I didn't know anything about life and this illness from my daughter, Sasha, was temperance on my soul.

"It was a learning experience. It was something I had to go through and she had to go through and we had to go through together, with her mother and the entire family. Cameron felt like who I was at that time."

Could this role land Diaz an Oscar nomination perhaps?