My Sister's Keeper


At last, I had the courage to watch such a heart-breaking movie: My Sister's Keeper.

It was a story that could make you cry from the very beginning to the end of the movie. The story was too full of love, that it breaks your heart too many times. All a mother can do to save her daughter, and all a sister could sacrifice to keep the ties tied.

A spoiler that's a little too mixed up (bad composition):

Kate Fitzgerald (Sofia Vassilieva) has had leukemia since she was still little, and Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) was conceived by in vitro fertilization to be the genetic match to her sister. Since Anna was a newborn, she had been in and out of the hospital just to donate whatever her sister needed. When Anna was 11, and Kate was 13, Anna sued her parents for the rights of her own body, and asked Attorney Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin) to help her. Their mother, Sara Fitzgerald (Cameron Diaz) was too focused in saving Kate that she did not mind at all whether or not Anna was still willing to do all those to help her sister, to the point that she faced Anna in court just to win the case. During the hearing, it was found out that Kate was the one who asked Anna to ask for medical emancipation because she wanted to rest already. And so Anna won the case, Kate passed away peacefully, and they all went on with their lives. And everytime the family gets to be together, they always go to the place which would always remind them of Kate: Montana.

Directed by Nick Cassavetes, from the novel written by Jodi Picoult.

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