Leukemia

...emotional questions that it's tough to endure the film's few moments of real poignancy. When their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), needs cell- and bone-marrow donors, the desperate mother (Cameron Diaz) and father (Jason...

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...Diaz and Jason Patric) to harvest umbilical-cord blood, bone marrow and various organs for their daughter Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), who has leukemia. Anna has hired an attorney (Alec Baldwin), demanding to be "medically emancipated" from...

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...(Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric) for the rights to her own body after refusing to donate a kidney to her leukemia-stricken sister (Sofia Vassilieva). The solid performances aren't enough to lift this film from the depths of melodrama. Scenes...

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...when she got one of those calls that everyone dreads. In "My Sister's Keeper," Cameron Diaz plays a mother driven to save a daughter who has leukemia (played by Sofia Vassilieva). Diaz' father, Emilio Diaz (inset), died from pneumonia...

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Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Jodi Picoult, aEURoeMy SisteraEUR™s KeeperaEUR� tells the story of the Fitzgerald family, who are waiting helplessly as their oldest child, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), slowly dies of leukemia.

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...the Third." In "My Sister's Keeper," Diaz plays the mother of a daughter (Abigail Breslin) conceived by in-vitro fertilization to be a genetic match for her older sister (Sofia Vassilieva), who suffers from leukemia. Diaz will next be...

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...engineering a child (Abigail Breslin) as a perfect genetic match to help save the life of their older daughter Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), who has leukemia. Ordinarily, this sort of material would seem better suited for television, but there's an...

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...focused. Dad (Jason Patric) is a loving breadwinner with a ready smile. But the leukemia that may kill Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) is sucking up all the attention. Brother Jesse (Evan Ellingson) is lost in the vortex of Kate's treatments and...

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...sisters Anna (Abigail Breslin) and Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) are young, too. The film is fairly graphic in portraying how Kate has suffered from leukemia. It depicts severe nosebleeds, vomiting, baldness and deathly pallor. There are...

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