By Briannah Davidson
My Sister’s Keeper is a 2009 New Line Cinema movie directed by Nick Cassavetes. This movie is based on a book by Jodi Picoult. It’s called My Sister’s Keeper, also. It stars Abigain Breslin as Anna Fitzgerald, Sofia Vassilieva as Kate Fitzgerald, Evan Ellingson as Jesse Fitzgerald, Cameron Diaz as Sara Fitzgerald (Momma Fitzgerald), and Jason Patric as Brian Fitzgerald (Daddy Fitzgerald).
This movie definitely makes it on my list of all time favorite movies!!! It is about a little girl that is conceived by means of in vitro fertilization, which is a process by which an egg is fertilized by sperm outside of the body, or how most know the term, a “test tube baby”. Anna Fitzgerald was brought into the world to be a savior sister as the doctor suggested. Anna is conceived to be a perfect genetic match for her older sister, Kate, who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia, to donate her organs, blood, bone marrow, and tissue in order to keep her sister alive. The doctors started taking from her literally the minute she came into the world. When Kate turns fifteen, she goes into renal failure, and eleven-year-old Anna knows that she will be forced by her parents to donate one of her kidneys. She saves up some money and goes to Attorney Campbell Alexander. He agrees to work for Anna, suing for partial termination of parental rights. A lot of things happen in between. Kate gets a boyfriend and they become really close, and he dies, and Anna finds her trying to commit suicide. Sara (her mom) goes a bit crazy and tries to take over everyone in the family and Brian (her dad) offends Anna a bit. A bit later the doctors tell Kate and her family that she is not going to be fighting cancer for much longer. Cancer was going to win. Kate wanted to go to the beach one last time, so they took her there. When the family goes to court, and Jesse finally admits to the whole room that Kate was having Anna sue them, he couldn’t take it anymore. Kate dies, and the case finally comes through that the partial termination of parental rights was confirmed.
The movie is a lot more intense, and it is so emotional. If you are not bawling at the end like I was the first time I watched it, you do not have a heart. I loved it. It was an amazing movie. The four awards it won shows it. I just can’t even explain how extraordinary it is. I would recommend it to everyone that breathes.