DVD cover for the 2009 film My Sister's Keeper.
Movie Details
Title: My Sister's Keeper
Release Year: 2009
Director: Nick Cassavetes, known for directing The Notebook
Based On: The 2004 novel of the same name by Jodi Picoult
Plot: The story centers on Anna Fitzgerald, a child conceived by in vitro fertilization to be a genetic match and donor sibling for her older sister Kate, who has leukemia. When Anna is 11, her parents want her to donate a kidney to Kate, prompting Anna to sue her parents for medical emancipation and the right to her own body.
Cast: The film stars Cameron Diaz as Sara Fitzgerald (the mother), Abigail Breslin as Anna Fitzgerald, Alec Baldwin as the lawyer Campbell Alexander, Jason Patric as the father Brian Fitzgerald, and Sofia Vassilieva as Kate Fitzgerald.