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April 16, 2009

Is My Sister's Keeper The Chick Flick To End All Chick Flicks?

The trailer for My Sister's Keeper starring Cameron Diaz as an old mom, Jason Patric trying to play someone other than the rapist in Your Friends And Neighbors, Alec Baldwin as a TV lawyer, and Abigail Breslin as, apparently, a little girl who is an asshole. Everybody here wants an Oscar soooo baaad:

I know it's based on a book, but it's like a studio executive yelled "Get me a movie about a hot couple with a kid with cancer, and get the director of The Notebook to direct it!" I'm not saying this movie won't make me cry when I inevitably see it, I'm just saying I'll be hate-crying hate-tears. (Also, Jason Patric is and forever will be the locker room rapist from Your Friends And Neighbors, and should just take that character on the road or something and stop trying.)

Posted by Lindsay at 4:30 PM in ,
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Da Cake Eatur

da only chick flik ive seen is da mastur of disguys and i never lauff so hard in my LiFE!!! dat movie is my faverite of all time. he be like i am princ lamijama LOL den he like i bet you got a little weener and some tinee nuts HAHA it s da best!!

Posted by: Da Cake Eatur profile link at 04/16/09 4:55 PM | Reply
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aaron

Seriously, how long does it take you to write like that?

Posted by: aaron profile link in reply to Da Cake Eatur's comment at 04/16/09 8:49 PM | Reply
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Elliot

When i get married, i am going to threaten divorce all the time. IF YOU DON'T GO TO THE BEACH, I'LL DIVORCE YOU. It'll be our little joke, that only i will get.

Also what is up with the title? Doesn't the allusion imply that the one sister murders her other sister and then lies about it?

Posted by: Elliot profile link at 04/16/09 5:02 PM | Reply
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RobinRubbermaid

Yep. I feel the same way about the guy who played the child-molester father in "Happiness." No matter what he's in, he will never not be that guy.

Posted by: RobinRubbermaid profile link at 04/16/09 5:04 PM | Reply
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EtWB

Dylan Baker. I'm the same way, really, about everyone from that movie.

Posted by: EtWB profile link in reply to RobinRubbermaid's comment at 04/16/09 5:10 PM | Reply
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This is one movie that may be better than the book because My Sisters Keeper had mediocre writing, ulikable charachters, and a bad ending. The only thing going for it was a juicy plot, which is mostly what the movie is using.

Posted by: Do I really need to put a name at 04/16/09 5:51 PM | Reply
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inglorius basTURD

2:06
And the roflcoptr goes, "lolololololol!"

Posted by: inglorius basTURD profile link at 04/16/09 6:03 PM | Reply
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I feel your hate-crying hate-tears, Lindsay. They get sucked out of me, and then I am bitter. Best reason to watch chick-flicks alone with a glass of wine.

Posted by: Bunaga profile link at 04/16/09 6:08 PM | Reply
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Genevieve

Jason Patric is so totally an almost vampire. I don't know about this Friends And Neighbors thing you speak of.

p.s. I feel like in the book the healthy daughter did the right thing by suing her parents. They were just using her to help the sick daughter. That's what I got anyway.

Posted by: Genevieve profile link at 04/16/09 6:18 PM | Reply
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Blondie

OHHHH Friends and Neighbors should so go on the WMOAT list.

Posted by: Blondie profile link at 04/16/09 6:44 PM | Reply
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Wow, I just read the plot synopsis for the book, and I think it is probably worse than you even realize.

Posted by: Laur profile link at 04/16/09 6:46 PM | Reply
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Is that Snow Patrol, too? Check, check and check. It looks unbearably terrible.

Posted by: Stella at 04/16/09 7:27 PM | Reply
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Chris

The book by Jodi Picoult was amazing. This movie better do right instead of changing it to a happy ending.

Posted by: Chris profile link at 04/16/09 7:36 PM | Reply
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parasitic

did you just give away that there is a sad ending? OH NOES call the spoiler police!

Posted by: parasitic profile link in reply to Chris's comment at 04/17/09 7:28 AM | Reply
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this makes me angrier than anything ever. fuck you my sister's keeper

Posted by: chris at 04/16/09 8:25 PM | Reply
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She-Ra, P.O.P.

I think cancer boyfriend was the guy who plays John Connor in the Terminator tv show.

Posted by: She-Ra, P.O.P. profile link at 04/16/09 8:34 PM | Reply
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Gotta admit, I loved the book -- even the twist ending, which has been changed in the movie: http://www.joblo.com/sisters-keeper-ending

Posted by: Ariel at 04/16/09 10:41 PM | Reply
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Mcluskyist

Oy vey.

Posted by: Mcluskyist profile link at 04/16/09 11:31 PM | Reply
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Oh my God...
LIIIIIIIFE is beautiful but i'ts COOOM-PLIIII-CAAA-TEEED

That just made my day...

Posted by: ur3000 at 04/17/09 3:51 AM | Reply
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JBHale

Umm, isn't a keeper the alternative to a tampon that involves a small cup to be filled...

Posted by: JBHale profile link at 04/17/09 3:58 AM | Reply
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langford

That reminds me of that time Tori Amos was making an awkward joke, like, "I hate Britney's song "Toxic" because it makes me think of Toxic Shock Syndrome," and I'm all Tori, that's not funny because it's its own word, too, and I feel that way about your Keeper joke.

Posted by: langford profile link in reply to JBHale's comment at 04/17/09 6:46 PM | Reply
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parasitic

So, I'm really anti-Jodi Picoult. I think her books are like mainstream trash. But this trailer really makes me want to watch the movie and now I'm all confused. I'll hate-cry hate-tears with you, Lindsay.

Posted by: parasitic profile link at 04/17/09 7:32 AM | Reply
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I am a sucker. I teared up. And now I want to call my big sister.

Posted by: Elle at 04/17/09 9:10 AM | Reply
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Is that the same director that two decades ago called for practically the same movie, but cast it with Bett Midler and Barbara Forehead Hershey? Except he's switching it up this time and killing the kid instead of the spoiled friend?

Posted by: gijyun at 04/17/09 9:40 AM | Reply
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Ballroom Pink

Do moms of cancer victims really wear Uggs? No. Just Cameron Diaz's characters.

Posted by: Ballroom Pink profile link at 04/18/09 12:47 AM | Reply
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BodyKarate

This looks like the 300 of chick flicks.

Posted by: BodyKarate profile link at 04/18/09 4:49 PM | Reply
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don't reallly have a problem with this nonsense except for stupid ass Cameron Diaz, who the hell would believe that crap? worst casting ever.

Posted by: ed at 04/19/09 9:53 AM | Reply
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Cameron actually looks fine in this.
Jason Patric should have WON and Oscar for Friends And Neighbors. Best monologue in film history. Highest degree of difficulty as well. He killed in Rush and Narc too.
Writer is a snide asshole, Patric is as good as anyone working. He will lift this chicks flick to something watchable. This is one movie I'll let my old lady drag me to.

Posted by: Josser at 06/07/09 4:58 PM | Reply
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Hey do any of you know the name of the guy that played..the guy that had cancer to?

Posted by: Aron at 06/27/09 2:57 AM | Reply
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