My Sister's Keeper

When I had first heard that one of my all time favourite books was being turned into a movie my first thought was "YES!!" then came the wondering of who was going to be casted as Sara, Anna, Kate, Jesse, Brian, Julia and Campbell... at first it was Dakota and Elle Fanning who were chosen to play the roles of Anna and Kate. Unfortunately they dropped out after Dakota didn't want to shave her head of the role. Next came Sofia Vassilieva and Abigail Breslin, along with Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric and Alec Baldwin. That would be the final cast.

At first I was a little iffy about Cameron Diaz, would she be able to pull of the emotionally distraught mother of three, with a daughter who has been batteling cancer almost her entire life? Well I'll tell you one thing, SHE PULLED IT OFF!

I went to see My Sister's Keeper on the day of it's release. I loved the book to death and I was very excited to see how they adapted it into a movie. I was nervous about the casting because I felt as though they were all wrong for the roles, except for Alec Baldwin who fit Campbell Alexander to a tee.

So the movie started, and of course I already had tears in my eyes, my eyes did not cease to produce tears for the entire duration of the movie. It was terribly sad, I don't think that there was a dry eye in the theater, people were sobbing and weeping. It was not a feel good movie at all! The acting was great, but there was something about it that it didn't seem as amazing as I was hoping. They didn't develop the characters nearly enough, in the book you felt for Anna because you felt as though her parents really had had her simply to be a donor for her sister. In the film they didn't show Anna's feelings at all, they didn't show her talks with her father Brian about her feelings, they didn't really show the feelings of any of the characters.

The part of the film that irked me the most was how they completely changed the ending!! How could Jodi Picoult allow them to completely change the entire theme of the book! Having Anna not die in the end completely disregards the theme of "you are brought to this earth for one reason...". I can't believe that they ruined her amazing story like that. The ending was predictable, and it lacked the shock and sadness the ending the book had. I was severly dissapointed. I sobbed while reading the book, I think that for me the book was sadder than the film.

In conclusion, the acting in the film was amazing, a great protrayal of the characters, but it was overshadowed by the terrible butchering of a beautifully sad and amazing story.