Release Date: Jan 27, 2002 Wide
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Based on a true story, My Sister's Keeper stars Kathy Bates as Christine, who since childhood has suffered from a debilitating mental illness. Spending most of her life in and out of various institutions, Christine has long yearned for independence, but is unable to wrest free of her controlling mother, Helen (Lynn Redgrave). Upon Helen's death, her other daughter, Judy (Elizabeth Perkins), a successful, self-absorbed art director who has deliberately distanced herself from her family, is
Jan 27, 2002 Wide
Jun 18, 2002
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Melodramatic and commercial elements try their best to turn you away but this moving, provocative drama will grip your heart -- and hold it.
Pulling at our heartstrings, director Nick Cassavetes collaborates with The Notebook screenwriter to deliver an acutely sensitive screenplay exploring the inexplicable. Issues of morality, determination & inevitability swirl around those of life & death
There were several parts of this story that were portrayed well, from raising awareness of the condition itself, to both view points of sufferer and family. There were times when the film could have been a little more interesting and seemed more like a made for tv type of film ? but interesting none-the-less.
February 12, 2009Super Reviewer
As a person living with a mental illness, I would like to recommend the movie, "My Sister's Keeper". This is a movie that follows two sisters, with the older sister "Krissy" having been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, from childhood all the way through middle age. Although the younger sister "Judy" had great
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