NipPierce
Wow, this is a REALLY bad movie!
Glucedee
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Voxitype
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Dana
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
aviellsegall
This is a multi emotions movie !I was : Crying and laughing, Angry and confused, Decisive and indecisive, Dreamer and practical, Amazed and disappointed.Life worth living and death worth dying,Oh my god - this movie is so good !
Coral Grainger
I cannot understand how anyone rated this 4 stars. this movie is terrible. The movie keeps loosing focus, at one point the little girl, Anna is told that her court hearing will be on Friday, since they don't give a date, we can only assume that its this Friday, yet in the period of time between now and 'Friday' Anna's sister Kate, gets a boyfriend, goes on loads of dates, goes to the prom with the by she is madly in love with, looses her virginity to him and he dies! all before Friday! wow, quick relationship! the age gaps, make no sense, when we see a flash back to Kate and her brother Jesse as kids we see that they both look about 4-5 so we can assume they are twins, or very similar in age. but the synopsis says they are a 4 year age gap! what! later on, we here that Anna is 11, so that means that Kate is about 14-15, okay, well she does look that age. but then why is she going to prom and loosing her virginity! plus at the end of the movie Anna explains that Jesse went back to school, back from where! hes 14-15 why isn't he in school! sure your sister is dying but the school system doesn't accept that as an excuse. and lastly the one thing I'm sure your all thinking! why is the mum such a B*TCH!when she found out that her daughter had cancer, she immediately took to making another child so that her first daughter could have a chance of living! I'm sooooo surprised this movie isn't called "spare parts" because that's what it felt like it should be called! the whole way through it seemed like Anna was a slave! made to donate parts of her body to her sister. if Kate wasn't ill Anna wouldn't exist. how is Anna not more messed up by the fact that her parents only had her so that they could chop her up and steal her blood and bones and organs! OMG what is wrong with these parents. why did no one ever discuss the moral issue here! the parents said that they didn't want to see their child in pain and they wanted to make Kate better. it doesn't make sense that they would make one child better by breaking the other and operating on a child against there will! imagine if Anna had gotten really ill from all these surgeries, what you gonna do make another kid to fix that kid, then that one get ill, whoops! better have more kids so we can get more free spare parts! OMG THIS FAMILY GAHHHHH!
SnoopyStyle
Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) was deliberately conceived to provide for her dying sister Kate (Sofia Vassilieva). As Kate's condition deteriorates, Anna is expected to donate her kidney to save Kate's life. She hires lawyer Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin) to sue her parents Brian (Jason Patric) and Sara (Cameron Diaz) for medical emancipation.This tear jerker melodrama tries to add some court drama. It follows the various characters from their points of view. The actors push their emotional limits. The important thing here is that there are no villains, a kid is dying and there is family dysfunction. I would prefer to follow Kate for the whole movie. She has the most compelling melodrama in a teen romance. Also she's the center of everybody's stories. The court drama poses a few problems with limited solution. The twist solves most of the problems but leaves one dangling thread. There is no way Kate would do that to Anna based on their relationship on screen. Overall, the movie gets a couple of sniffles and the court drama became less important.
sachisamster
I remember feeling in a similar way when I finished watching A Walk to Remember. The whole picture of death leaves us in tears and with the question of why did she have to die? Can people find any meaning to death? is it the end of existence? Anna ends saying that she hopes she will meet her sister again, is their another paradigm of existence after death? Is their anything wrong with the stand the mom took for her daughters protection? Do you feel that Kate should have fought more? What is the whole purpose of living? We are going to die someday. Is the quality of life measured by how long we live? Movies like this and Slumdog Millionaire makes me wonder if we end up with an emotional high and just forget about the fact that these things really happen. Does a portion of the profit gained by this movie go to treat cancer patients? The movie is based on a book by Jodi Picoult which ends differently..When Anna gets her emancipation she dies in a car crash and kidneys are anyway given away to Kate. I'm wondering why the story line was changed and Kate had to die. What if Anna didn't die of a car crash but died in the Kidney transplant operation. Maybe its too much of a tale to believe that she sacrificed her self for her sister. Sacrifice seems as something very unusual and makes us wonder why? Maybe because we don't how to respond to such love. What if someone underwent a punishment that we were supposed to go through or someone was wrongly accused and killed when I was the real culprit. How do we respond?
