MY SISTER'S KEEPER (2009)

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"Sad, touching, magnificent."

"My Sister's Keeper", directed by Nick Cassavetes, opened on June 26th, 2009, I found was heart warming and produced a discrete point of view of the actual feeling of the fear of death.

Lead by a wonderful cast, and a brilliant book by Jodi Picoult, this movie showed by the real side of reaching out and touching a dying soul, so readily forgiving, and true to the heart in the saddest and most innocent times of a child's death.

Cameron Diaz played the aggressive, over protective mother of three, Sara Fitzgerald, with her first daughter Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) enduring the life-crippling symptoms of leukemia, where she portrays a lawyer against the will of her second daughter Anna (Abigail Breslin) as she no longer wants forcible organ doners and seeks medical emancipation from her parents with the help of lawyer Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin). Her role was excellent in almost everyway as she does just the amount to force her pain out of losing a sick daughter, and being a mom who must live with a cancer-stricken child and must see beyond her presence in means to save her, even by forcing help out of her predestined child, born to give medical assistance. Her character filled in perfecty with the amount of good and bad, full of surprising thoughts and responses to her calamity, and her portrayal is done well, with such a great supporting cast at her side.

Abigail Breslin does her stuff. This is the top of the line acting for her, as she slides past the ordinary kid role and steps into the big leagues as the leading character and the narrator to the story. She does a wonderful job and a creates a wonderful performance. Even for her young age, she goes beyond her capabilities in acting and becomes the character in her role. This is what really helps the film expand into the reaches of great movie making.

Sofia Vassilieva's portrayal of Kate Fitzgerald, the diagnosed, suffering leukemia stricken daughter of such a kind and fortunate family is promising and thoughtful. Her visuals and acting as a cancer patient is mesmerizing and heart warming. The sickness she lives with itself is so passionate to her character that it turns her into such a great stance from beginning to end, and she never loses hope and she never gives up loving her family and her brother and sister. Such good acting as something so real is astounding in this movie and she depicts it so wonderfully and thoughtfully.

Supported by Jason Patric who fills in the charasmatic, and helpful father of the family, Alec Baldwin who plays the frisky and clever lawyer at Anna's side, and Joan Cusack's delightful, yet funny Judge Joan De Salvo, this movie took me by surprise, and I hardly expected it to turn out so heart warming and special to the end credits.

I loved this movie, and recommend it to everyone, even the action lovers or drama haters, becuase this one will keep your attention and your mind running on love, hope, innocence, caring, and cleverness.