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My Sister's Keeper
- Director: Nick Cassavetes
- Writer: Jeremy Leven; Nick Cassavetes
- Producer: Toby Emmerich; Merideth Finn
CGiii Comment
Nepotism and the Cassavetes clan go hand-in-hand.
Unfortunately, this son lacks the intelligence of his father.
Nick, assumes that his audiences are less intelligent than him - silly boy.
What should have been a challenging and complex film turned into a mush of sentimentality.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In Los Angeles, the eleven year old Anna Fitzgerald seeks the successful lawyer Campbell Alexander trying to hire him to earn medical emancipation from her mother Sara that wants Anna to donate her kidney to her sister. She tells the lawyer the story of her family after the discovery that her older sister Kate has had leukemia; how she was conceived by in vitro fertilization to become a donor; and the medical procedures she has been submitted since she was five years old to donate to her sister. Campbell accepts to work pro bono and the obsessed Sara decides to go to court to force Anna to help her sister.
Cast & Characters
Abigail Breslin as Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald;
Walter Raney as Pawn Shop Proprietor;
Sofia Vassilieva as Kate Fitzgerald;
Cameron Diaz as Sara Fitzgerald;
Heather Wahlquist as Aunt Kelly;
Jason Patric as Brian Fitzgerald;
Evan Ellingson as Jesse Fitzgerald;
Alec Baldwin as Campbell Alexander;
Brennan Bailey as Jesse Fitzgerald - Age 10;
Nicole Marie Lenz as Gloria;
Olivia Hancock as Kate Fitzgerald - Age 2;
Jeffrey Markle as Dr. Wayne;
Emily Deschanel as Dr. Farquad;
John DeRosa as EMT #1;
Marcos A. Ferraez as EMT #2