I
saw this
movie yesterday and think is
still have the
hangover of the movie. Please
excuse me, if you think i was
baised while reviewing this movie but, i'm adding to my list of
"All Time Favorite's". This
current year, i think, have been
really bad for the
Hollywood. It really
lacked the
content this year.
Big movies with
big budgets were made but they all
lacked the main thing, the damn story....... where are the good writers who have written some amazing scripts of all time. Last year brought some really big movies like
GI Joe, 2012, X-Men Origin etc and et. al. There are a lot i can name but sinceraly don't remember them .... cause there was nothing good to remember them. There have been really few movies to watch this year and this is one of them. Strongly recommended.
- Cameron Diaz – Sara Fitzgerald
- Alec Baldwin – Campbell Alexander
- Abigail Breslin – Anna Fitzgerald
- Sofia Vassilieva – Kate Fitzgerald
- Jason Patric – Brian Fitzgerald
- Evan Ellingson – Jesse Fitzgerald
- Joan Cusack – Judge De Salvo
- Thomas Dekker – Taylor Ambrose
- Emily Deschanel - Dr. Farquad
Spoiler's Ahead
The movie starts with an
extraordinary scene when the
youngest child of
Fitzgerald family
Anna, played by Abigail Breslin, decides to
sue her
parents for
Medical Emancipation because they were forcing or presurising her to donate body parts to her
Leukemic older
sister Kate Fitzgerald.
Anna, as she got to know later, was concieved with a plan so that she can be used as a doner for her older sister. The two sisters are really close. They love eachother but this time
Anna was thinking about herself.
Because of a
leukemic patient in home, all other
children were kind of
sidelined. Though everybody was fine about it but all of them suffered cause of it. The oldest son
Jesse also suffers the
neglegence of his
parents.
Jesse was
Dyslexic which his parents came to know very late.
The mother of the family, played by
Cameron Diaz, Sarah who is a
dedicated mother and
want to
save her
girl at any cost. She is ready to do
anything for her. She is
not ready to
believe that her
girl can die of the Leukemia. She is so
determinded to
save her
child that she has given her self to her girl. She has almost side lined her other two child. She has
shaved her
head for the
movie and she is the second actress after
Demi Moore whom i have seen doing this
for a
character.
The father of the family,
Jason Patric, Brian Fitzgerald knows and
understand his
children and when
Anna files sues them for medical emancipation, he realizes that
everybody is
important in the
family. When the
doctor tells him that her
leukemic girl is
dying. He
takes her
to the
beach and try to make her
last days happy and
give her all the
happiness in the world.
Kate Fitzgerald, played by
Sofia Vassilieva, plays the leukemic girl child. No wonder if she gets hell lot of
nomination for the
character.She is
awesome in the
character. Hope to see a lot more of her again and again. She is like
Ellen paige to me cause after
watching Juno, i felt like
she is it the
best..........felt bad she didn't win oscar for
Juno. Really don't have much words to describe her performance. She is really amazing ......
recommended.....
watch her when she falls in love.
Alexander,
Alec Baldwin, the lawyer who takes up the case for
Anna and
Joan Cusack, Judge De Salvo, who is the
judge of the case. Also two
important characters of the movie. I
have not seen much of Alec Baldwin and really
appreciate his
performance in this
movie. I'm getting some of this movies to watch ahead. Got
the good shepard will be watching it in soon. I have been a
fan of
Joan Cusack and
always wish to
watch her more and more. I have seen some 6-8 movies of her and
always
loved her.
Nick Cassavetes, the
director of the movie, r
eally would stand up and applaud and want to thank you for such an absolute beauty. One of the most
difficult part when making such a movie with so
many important charactes is to
distribute the
screen space between the
characters so that
no one looses its
importance. And this is one point i think where Nick
excelled and with the
screenplay. The
story is
displayed on the
screen very
beautifully.
Matthew Barry and Nancy Green-Keyes congrats to them to pull out such a
impressive and
justifying cast.
Would like to highlight some important scenes of the movie.
1- Anna Talk to Alexander about hiring him for suing her parents.
2- When Kate finds love.
3- When the Fitzgerald's go to the beach.
4- When Sarah walks into Alexendar's office.
5- When Mom and Dad find out Jesse is Dyslexic and wants to send him to special school.
6- When Kate tells Anna to file the case against her parents.
7- When Jesse tells why Anna has filed the case against them.
8- Especial moments between kate and Taylor, her love.
9- Watch the dedicated and determine mother who wants to save her child.
10- When Judge De Salvo talk to Anna privatly about the case.
This is one of my awesome. I would give it
9/10 points and would
really recommend you to watch this movie. To support these kind of film makers who are working there and bring pleasure to the industry with their work.
