Nick Cassavetes

...that's a good thing." Director Nick Cassavetes draws strong performances from the entire cast, including Breslin and Sofia Vassilieva as Kate, whose physical decline is portrayed in stark and heartbreaking detail. "She (Vassilieva) really...

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...of family love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing. Directed by Nick Cassavetes ("The Notebook"), "My Sister's Keeper" stars Cameron Diaz, Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin, Academy Award® nominee Alec...

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...like, 'You don't cry in this movie till the end. You don't cry,' " Diaz says. When the actors did get teary, Cassavetes nearly always cut it out of the movie. Though Diaz might be the shiniest name on the marquee, "My Sister's Keeper" is...

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...perhaps, by the weeping induced by the ravages of dementia he portrayed in his adaptation of Nicholas Spark's novel The Notebook, director Nick Cassavetes apparently set out to make another tear-jerker with a subject even more traumatic. What,...

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...Joan Cusack (Judge De Salvo). Directed by: Nick Cassavetes; written by Jeremy Leven and Cassavetes, based on the novel by Jodi Picoult; produced by Mark Johnson, Chuck Pacheco and Scott L. Goldman. A New Line Cinema release. Comments...

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...a sick-child drama that rises well above the predictable "My Sister's Keeper," directed with a sure, sensitive hand by Nick Cassavetes, deals with a family coping with a sick child. It's a horror movie for parents, a righteous weeper that...

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My Sister's Keeper (film) My Sister's Keeper is a American drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, and Alec Baldwin. Based on Jodi Picoult's novel of the same name with screenplay...

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...the health and sanity of her younger daughter (Abigail Breslin). Picoult fans have been up in arms since word got out that Cassavetes changed the book's shocking final twist. "I changed 'The Notebook's' ending, too," he remarks. And...

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...some notion of realism in the process. In this film, he assembles an able cast into a family defined and distorted by the leukemia of their older daughter and middle child, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva). Kate's disease was diagnosed when she was...

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