Poster

My Sister's Keeper

Year

2009

Genre

Drama

Country

USA

Director

Nick Cassavetes

Writer

Jeremy Leven, Nick Cassavetes

Actors

Abigail Breslin, Walter Raney, Sofia Vassilieva, Cameron Diaz, Heather Wahlquist, Jason Patric, Evan Ellingson, Alec Baldwin, Nicole Marie Lenz, Paul Butler, Olivia Hancock, Jeffrey Markle, Emily Deschanel, John DeRosa, Marcos A. Ferraez

Description

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. ------- Anna Fitzgerald was conceived via in vitro so that her parents could have a genetic match and donor for their older daughter, Kate who has leukemia. But after years being tested and prodded, Anna decides to take her parents to court herself so that she could be emancipated from them when it comes to anything medical. But her mother refuses to it so the whole thing goes to court. And it nearly tears the family apart.

Comments

Duration

246 minutes (at 29.97 frames per second)

Filesize

1039 MB

Video

xvid - resolution: 672x286

Audio