Rating: PG13
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 06/26/2009(USA)
Release Date: 11/17/2009
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 109 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Profanity, Youth Substance Use
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
Director
Nick Cassavetes collaborates with screenwriter
Jeremy Leven (
The Notebook) for this
drama about a pair of parents who resort to unorthodox methods in order to save their young daughter's life, only to find their decision coming back to haunt them in a manner neither could have ever foreseen.
Sara (
Cameron Diaz) and
Brian (
Jason Patric) are coasting through life with their young son and daughter when tragedy threatens to tear the family apart. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only hope for survival rests in her parents' ability to find a compatible bone marrow donator. Desperate to save their daughter's life at any cost,
Sara and
Brian conceive another child in hopes that the baby will be a genetic match. But that decision raises a series of moral and ethical questions that rapidly begin to erode the foundation of the once-happy couple's relationship. Incensed upon learning that she was brought into this world for the singular purpose of prolonging the life of her ailing older sister, the young girl (
Abigail Breslin) ultimately decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body.
Alec Baldwin,
Sofia Vassilieva, and
Joan Cusack co-star.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
;)
