Well, this is indeed a nice movie, a stunningly touching story. It sent me into goosebumps a few times, and tears were welling in my eyes, but didn't drop lol...
Hmmm, I am thinking too, to buy this book from Jodi Picoult. She is, as I have known, a very good writer lol, but I have never read her books == Hehe maybe keeping a collections of her books in the near future?? XD
Movie reviews (from web) :
In this film, he assembles an able cast into a family defined and distorted by the leukemia of their older daughter and middle child, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva). Kate’s disease was diagnosed when she was a toddler, and to save her life her parents, Sara (Cameron Diaz) and Brian (Jason Patric), conceived another daughter, Anna (Abigail Breslin), who was genetically engineered to be a perfect donor of blood, marrow and whatever else Kate might need. Most of this is told through flashbacks, as each member of the family — there is also an older brother, Jesse (Evan Ellingson) — takes a turn providing voice-over narration and giving his or her own perspective on the story so far.
In the present, Anna has engaged a lawyer — a marvelously florid Alec Baldwin — to represent her in a suit against her parents. She wants to be medically emancipated, and not compelled to give up the kidney her sister now desperately needs. Her action sends a shock wave through the family, enraging her mother and throwing what had seemed to be agreed-upon principles into doubt. And yet, because of their long habits of comfort and care, the five Fitzgeralds seem to hang together in spite of Anna’s apparent betrayal.
Her suit raises some interesting ethical and legal issues, which are passed over rather lightly as the case comes before a judge (Joan Cusack) who has recently lost her own daughter. Do Anna’s rights to govern her own body trump her obligations to the sister she claims to love? Is she prepared to let Kate die?
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