Movie Review: My Sister's Keeper

     My Sisters's Keeper is a 2009 movie directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, and Alec Baldwin. Based on Jodi Picoult's novel of the same name.

   The story of the movie was about an 11-year-old girl Anna Fitzgerald, who was "genetically engineered" by her parents. As a way to keep her older sister Kate alive who has been suffering from advanced stage leukemia, her mother and father had Anna for the sole purpose of having available organs for their dying daughter. When Anna realizes this, she seeks the help of an attorney to get "medical emancipation" from her parents, realizing that it might mean the death of her sister.

 

The film is interlaced with flashbacks that detail Kate and Anna's close relationship, as well as how Kate's illness has affected her siblings' lives and their relationships. 

During the hearing, Anna and Kate's older brother, Jesse, reveals on the witness stand that Anna is actually acting under Kate's

instruction. Kate, not wanting to live any longer, and knowing Sara their mother would be too narrow-minded to listen to her, had gently persuaded Anna to refuse to donate her kidney. It is also revealed that Anna, due to her own reluctance to see Kate die, had been fully prepared to donate her kidney, and had initially been quite upset at Kate's decision. Sara is indignant and attempts to argue, but is finally forced by both Jesse and her husband to realize that Kate had been trying to tell her this for some time.

Before the case is decided, Kate dies while sleeping at the hospital with her mother by her side. After Kate's death, Campbell Anna’s attorney brings the court decision, Anna won the case. The family moves on with their lives, but every year on Kate's birthday they go to Montana, which was her "most favorite place in the world". At the end, Anna says that she will see Kate again and that, in the meantime, their relationship continues. 

After watching the movie I felt awful for Anna because her parents conceived her with the

aid of scientists just to provide Kate with a genetic match whose organs could help keep Kate alive. The idea of parents using one daughter's organs and blood to keep another alive is just horrible, they should love their children equally. But all in all I love the movie, and the title "My sister's keeper", I think Jodi Picoult was trying to connect between the title and the 

story is the fact that the main character was brought into this world for one huge reason, to keep her sister alive. So basically, she is her sisters keeper, she's keeping her alive from the cancer.  I admire Anna's role in this movie , she is a brave girl and loving sister. If I we're in her situation I would do the same to save my older sister.