My Sister's Keeper (2009)

Based on the book by Jodi Picoult (which I guess a lot of people must love), this movie is a failure both in its predictably trite story line and its inept cinematic execution. I have some major problems with the structure of this film, its fractured narrative, the overdone musical interludes which serve only to pad the movies soundtrack, and how Jesse’s delinquency naritive is introduced, but never resolved or even explained (what’s he doing in the city by himself all the time, turns out in the book he’s setting fires, I didn’t even get a hint of that from the movie). Also on casting Cameron Diaz as the obsessive mother, no, do not cast in these kinds of parts again. The most I can say for the film is that some of the court room scenes towards the end are of middling television series quality, and Alec Baldwin is always fun to have on screen, even when he has little to do. This movie though is just a half baked mess. Skip it.