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Nick Cassavetes uses a heavy hand to push his medical ethics weepie

Sadness settles into "My Sister's Keeper" like rain over Seattle in this troubling and troublesome drama of a dying child, the sister who has been created to save her and the family that is wasting away alongside of her. Starring Cameron Diaz as the mother, Abigail Breslin as Anna the sister/donor and an especially fine Sofia Vassilieva as Kate, with a lifetime of pain filling her 15 years, how could you not be moved by director Nick Cassavetes' latest effort? That seems to be exactly what Cassavetes is asking -- no, demanding -- as he puts us directly in the path of this emotional tsunami of a film that makes his prior weepie, "The Notebook," a tale of love and death wrapped in the arms of Alzheimer's, look sentimentally cheerful by comparison. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (3421 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 26 giugno 2009