If you are looking for a movie that will pull at your heart strings, check this one out. It was directed by the same person who made the Notebook. I watched this last night, and thought it was really good. I don't find many movies really pull me in and bring out the emotions that this one did for me. If you have kids, it will make you want to give your own kids a big hug after watching it. Keep the Kleenex handy! My Sister's Keeper Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack Abigail Breslin, Sara and Brian Fitzgerald's life with their young son and their two-year-old daughter, Kate, is forever altered when they learn that Kate has leukemia. The parents' only hope is to conceive another child, specifically intended to save Kate's life. For some, such genetic engineering would raise both moral and ethical questions; for the Fitzgeralds, Sara in particular, there is no choice but to do whatever it takes to keep Kate alive. And what it takes is Anna. Kate and Anna share a bond closer than most sisters: though Kate is older, she relies on her little sister--in fact, her life depends on Anna. Throughout their young lives, the sisters endure various medical procedures and hospital stays--just another part of their close-knit family's otherwise normal life. Sara, a loving wife and mother who left her career as an attorney to care for her daughter, is sometimes lost inside the single-minded caregiver she has become in her efforts to save Kate. Her strong, supportive husband, Brian, is often rendered powerless and passive by his wife's strength and determination. And their only son, Jesse, drifts, at times all but forgotten as Kate and Anna take center stage. Until Anna, now 11, says "no." Seeking medical emancipation, she hires her own lawyer initiating a court case that divides the family and that could leave Kate's rapidly failing body in the hands of fate. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810003155/trailer
For those who have seen the movie what did you think of it? How do you feel about having another child to harvest parts to save another child?
My wife actually watched this movie yesterday afternoon. I was sitting on the couch browsing the internet so I saw some of the movie. It seemed like an okay movie and I really disagree with what the parents did to their youngest daughter. Kids aren't property. I'd go as far as to say that the parents probably should have been charged with some sort of crime or at least had their child taken from them.
If one of my kids had cancer I would have another for the umbilical cord stem cells if there were no other options. Harvesting this new child's organs and bone marrow would not be an option. I would not sacrifice the health of one child for the other.
Yeah I couldn't see myself putting my second child through all the pain and medical procedures just to try and save my other child. I could see using the umbilical stem cells because it wouldn't harm the other child one bit, but not the other procedures. It would be hard enough to go through everything with the sick child, that I couldn't bear to watch my other young child kicking and screaming because they were being poked and prodded. I also wouldn't jeopardize my other child's health, knowing that my other child was probably just going to die anyway.
Rational risk analysis and management. Everyone practices it in the abstract, but few do when overcome with emotion.
I also disagree with what they did to Anna. Using umbilical stem cells is fine, because it wouldn't do her any harm, but taking a kidney against a child's will is really really not fine.
Comon, harvesting one (completely sentient) kid's health for the other is science fiction. I would actively attempt to destroy any western government that made it legal. The movie was strange science fiction. No one has come close to actually doing that they did in the movie.
I think I will give my kids a big hug when I get home. But I probably won't watch the movie. I have a hard time with dying kid stories. My wife would be balling her eyes out I am sure.
No you wouldn't, it gets pretty ridiculous. If she knows it's a sad movie, then the crying starts when the first semi-sad background song comes on.
<clearing throat> I uh, think the term you want is 'bawling'...balling is a whole nother activity. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
HeHe. I've seen other screw ups but this one is a riot. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
what about harvesting bone marrow? If my 3 yr olds bone marrow would save my 10 yr old, I'd consider it. An organ??? no
you know considering by commercials of that trailer, men are not supposed to see this movie, its just not their interest. "Big eye lashes" commercial that is.
I saw this movie and it is a Chick (cough) Flick. And I find it particularly disturbing that a child would have to sue there parents for medical emancipation. What is wrong with the Kid saying sorry dont want to do it and respecting that.
don't most hospitals have an ethics teams that would review this with the child? I mean, I know its just a movie and like Neitz said it makes no sense, but still.
