My Sister's Keeper: melodrama built with moral dilemma

My Sister's Keeper is one of those movies that not too many surprises ahead bring about what it is: a tearjerker from beginning to end.

As early as the credits began to warn us: while some children are the fruit of orange blossom, or a few drinks, other highly desired and planned, there are others who come into the world as "babies", that is conceived on purpose to try to help another brother very sick. You see, a declaration of intent.

That baby medicine is Anne Fitzgerald, a Perkins Abigail (Little Miss Sunshine), which grows ever more, especially as an actress, and reaching the world to try to save her sister Kate, who suffers from leukemia serious.

This disease leads to his parents, Sara and Brian (Cameron Diaz and Jason Patrick), to conceive of Anne, who from childhood is "used" to try to save his sister, he is a donor of bone marrow stem cells and fully compatible .

Until one day Anne will use a lawyer, Alec Baldwin, who seems increasingly better adapted to his new role, which is no longer a lover-for the medically emancipated, as Anne's sister, Kate needs a kidney not to die and she does not want to donate

You see, the argument is hard and poses multiple readings Can force a child to give a kidney, even to her sister?, How can a brother deny another the only way of life? ...

This act will cause a confrontation with her ​​mother Anne, who as I said is played by Cameron Diaz, have to see how time passes, it will play roles as mother and teen-age children in the dramatic role that memory , and certainly runs quite solvency. The mother, a lawyer, who leaves his career by tipping in the care of his daughter, does not take it well at all. His father, Jason Patrick also convincing, take things differently, then perhaps better takes the inevitable: the disease is incurable Kate, creating enough tension in the family.

In the end, will be responsible for a judge deciding a Joan Allen, very far from the histrionics to which we are accustomed and which is well contained-a tragedy that touches all the more closely, it has recently lost a daughter Kate's age.

The trial will be the centerpiece of the film, but almost more as a resource from which to remember much of the development of childhood disease and Kate, in a series of flashbacks, which can be confusing-please someone I explain when Cameron Diaz-rapa, so the hospital is more than a judicial drama, which is what at first glance it would seem.

The trial will end up giving us the key to the mystery, not reveal, but in the end it is quite logical.

The film, removing the exception of some confusing flashbacks, it's pretty well run. The director and co-writer, Nick Cassavetes, is also known by another hospital drama with a strong presence as John Q, does not enter into sensationalism or value judgments. It simply tells the story from different points of view: from the desperate, like, "Mother Courage" Cameron Diaz, the most practical, but also suffering from Jason Patrick, the most aseptic of Baldwin or Allen, a little surprised maturity Anne's character, perhaps a little forced for a girl as young as 11 years, but Abigail Perkins Talent does not chirp at all.

So without being a brilliant film, is beyond the drama closer to a TV movie, and at least you can invite, even minimally moral reflection.

Rating: 6.5 (would be 5.5, but the cast will work up note)