My Sister's Keeper (2009)

Movie: My Sister's Keeper (2009)

“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. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”

• Director: Nick Cassavetes
• Release Date:
  26 June 2009 (USA)
• Run Time:
  109 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for mature thematic content, some disturbing images, sensuality, language and brief teen drinking.

Trivia: Sofia Vassilieva shaved her hair and eyebrows off in order to play the role of Kate Fitzgerald. Vassilieva described it as being the least she could do to understand Kate’s pain. Due to filming in a T.V. show as well as the movie, Vassilieva’s long hair was turned into a wig for her.

Goofs: Continuity: When Mrs. Fitzgerald (Cameron Diaz) shaves her head, the next scene she is seen with her hair grown back and normal.