Directed by Nick Cassavetes, My Sisters Keeper tells the story of Andromeda 'Anna' Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin), an 11-year-old child who, we soon learn, was 'created' by her parents through artificial insemination to be a genetic match to supply needed blood and bone marrow transfusions for her older sister, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), who has leukemia. When Kate becomes sick enough to need a kidney transplant, Anna decides things have gone too far and sues her parents for control over her body. If any of the storyline so far has you dragging out your soap box to proselytize about any of the issues being presented, just stop. There's a lot more to the tale being told than a simple us vs. them mentality, and Cassavetes and his cast do a brilliant job making sure the human element – meaning the emotional rollercoaster the people actually going through these events on the screen are going through – never gets lost amongst the thorny issues being raised.
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