My Sister's Keeper

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.

Genres

Drama Family

Countries

United States

Director

Nick Cassavetes

Writers

Jeremy Leven Nick Cassavetes Jodi Picoult

Producers

Mark Johnson Chuck Pacheco Steven Posen Scott Goldman Merideth Finn Diana Pokorny Toby Emmerich Hillary Sherman Mendel Tropper Stephen Furst Mark Kaufman

Composer

Aaron Zigman

Cinematographer

Caleb Deschanel

Editors

Jim Flynn Alan Heim

Production

Mark Johnson Productions Gran Via Productions Curmudgeon Films New Line Cinema

Starring

Cameron Diaz Abigail Breslin Sofia Vassilieva Alec Baldwin Jason Patric Joan Cusack Heather Wahlquist Evan Ellingson Frank Cassavetes Nicole Marie Lenz Chris Kinkade Thomas Dekker E. G. Daily David Thornton Lin Shaye Jeffrey Markle Rick Salomon Emily Deschanel Frank Peluso Rico Simonini Keith Kraft Nina Barry Marcos A. Ferraez Paul Butler Walter Raney John DeRosa Noni Tulk-Perna Matthew Barry Annie Wood David Bortolucci

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