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"My Sister's Keeper" -- Bring lots and lots of tissues!
Saturday, June 6, 2009, 03:12 PM
Posted by Manny



I walked into the screening of "My Sister's Keeper" not knowing what to fully expect. All I knew was that the film was based on Jodi Picoult's bestselling book about an 11-year old kid who's suing her parents for medical emancipation. She doesn't want her body to be the lifeline of her dying sister anymore.

And guess what? The movie won me over! I love how Nick Cassavetes and his "The Notebook" screenwriting partner, Jeremy Leven, turn this film into a character-driven study on death and dying and its effects on a tight family unit. If the filmmakers decide to make this a narrative-driven movie, it would have been a melodramatic Lifetime channel fare.

I cried. A lot. And didn't feel guilty about it!

Cameron Diaz shines as the seemingly single-minded mother who has one purpose in life -- to save the dying Kate (the fantastic Sofia Vassilieva).

But the heart of the film belongs to the Oscar-nominated Abigail Breslin (Anna). This girl is amazing! She can go from sweet and precarious, to sorrow and grief in one second!

"My Sister's Keeper" comes out on June 26th, trust me, you'll love this film.

And coming out on Manny The Movie Guy, my cast interviews with Diaz, Vassilieva, and Breslin. And of course, my full movie review, just how many movie kisses should I give this film? Stay tuned...

Manny The Movie Guy - "My Sister's Keeper" -- Bring lots and lots of tissues!

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[ladyle]

i read the summary of the story and it's so sad!! but i know abigail is gna be great in it.

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The book is fantastic, so heart-breaking

Abigail is gonna rock, she is the future - she keeps going the way she is, she is gonna be awesome then she already is

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[lovinlauren]

I want to see this movie so bad,I told my friend that we need to see it.
She said she read the book and to bring lots of kleenex. I am sure Abigail is great in it.

[Lennie1984]

Yep, you'll need alot of tissue, i had tears while reading the book

I think Abigail is the perfect choice for the role of Anna

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[ladyle]

aww!! did the movie come out this weekend?

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Its coming out 26th June - cant wait

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Abigail filming Zombieland

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Abigail Breslin: Blue Plaid Pretty



Abigail Breslin makes her baby blue eyes pop with a pretty plaid top on Canadian TV show Much On Demand in Toronto on Wednesday afternoon (June 16)

The 13-year-old actress was on the show to promote her upcoming drama, My Sister’s Keeper, also starring Cameron Diaz.

My Sister’s Keeper is about Anna Fitzgerald (Breslin) who looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) remain alive.

The flick opens in theaters NEXT Friday, June 26.

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Little Miss Breslin doesn't mind doing heavy lifting in difficult roles
By: Randall King

Many 13-year-old girls don't even want to watch movies that might make them cry, let alone be in them.

But of course, that wouldn't be Abigail Breslin, one of only a handful of junior thespians to be nominated for an Academy Award before she turned 11. Breslin achieved that distinction in the 2005 comedy-drama Little Miss Sunshine.

"I'm not a big crier at movies when I'm watching them," she says. "But I did cry at Marley and Me, really hard and I was sad the whole night."

Notice that the New York City-born Breslin specified "when I'm watching them."

When she's making movies, the tears might flow more freely, especially in films such as the 2007 comedy-drama No Reservations, in which she played an orphan sent to live with her anti-social aunt (Catherine Zeta Jones).

The tearjerker bar is set even higher in the upcoming drama My Sister's Keeper, in which Breslin plays Anna, an 11-year-old girl genetically engineered to provide life-saving stem cells and bone marrow to her cancer-afflicted sister Kate (Sofia Vassilieva). After a lifetime of providing life-saving materials, Anna rebels and hires a lawyer (Alec Baldwin) to sue her parents (Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric) for "medical emancipation."

Breslin acknowledges that premise might be a tough sell for audiences.

"Of course, it's really hard to watch a family going through that," she says. "But I think that also it's about a family that, even though they're disconnected from each other, they love each other. That's also really important."

As for filming the oft-difficult material, Breslin says she doesn't find it too onerous to keep her distance from the drama on the set.

"There were definitely times and scenes where we definitely had to stay in it," she says. "But you also have to separate from it and be you and not the character... and I think that makes it a little bit easier."

Breslin seems determined not to be a complete drama queen. She appears to be conscientiously mixing it up with diverse projects, including the upcoming horror-comedy Zombieland, in which she'll be taking on legions of the undead alongside Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg.

"I had lots of fun," she says. "Instead of having to try not to cry all the time, I was trying not to laugh."

Breslin also lends her voice to three upcoming animated movies including the upcoming animated comedy Rango opposite Johnny Depp and Isla Fisher.

If she seems to be ticking off different film genres one-by-one, her interest in cinematic variety springs from a natural desire to stretch her acting muscles.

"I definitely like to play characters that are different from anything that I've played before," she says. I like to do different movies."

If you worry Breslin may be growing up too quickly, you only have to ask her about her academic plans and she excitedly projects her future sharing an apartment with a friend.

"She's going to go to Columbia and I'm going to go to NYU, and we've already picked out the place and we're going to have a silver Christmas tree up all year long so that we can have presents underneath it all the time, and it's going to be a pink and purple colour scheme," she says, breathlessly.

And what's her major going to be?

"Um... "

My Sister's Keeper opens in theatres next Friday.

Little Miss Breslin doesn't mind doing heavy lifting in difficult roles

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Abigail’s “Much on Demand” interview

MuchOnDemand : Abigail Breslin & Alexisonfire - Jun 17, '09