Nick Cassavetes

...her parents. Given a story so inherently suffused with strong emotions, many filmmakers would choose to pull back on the reins, but not The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes, who wants tears to roll like a mighty Mississippi. Very few of...

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...weepy cancer-centric Jodi Picoult adaptation. But for those of you who have, you might understand why faithful devotees of the novel are outraged by the Nick Cassavetes-directed film. Outraged enough that at one point, fans even started...

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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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...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, he...

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...source. In bringing "My Sister's Keeper'' to the screen, co-writer/director Nick Cassavetes ("The Notebook'') jettisons characters, drops plotlines, obscures a few motivations, and completely changes the author's original ending. This book...

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My Sister's Keeper is just such an arm-twisting weepie, and a prime specimen, too, adapted from a best-selling airport novel by Jodi Picoult by Jeremy Leven and director Nick Cassavetes (who previously collaborated on the wan The Notebook).

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...chaste cancer-ward romance. The extra cinematic shine, meanwhile, is the specialty of director Nick Cassavetes and screenwriter Jeremy Leven, who painted and plastered over literary mush in The Notebook. Their message in My Sister's...

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