this movie is sad yet touching and magnificent.this movie is base on a book by jodi picoult.
here's the summary on it:
In Los Angeles, the eleven year old Anna Fitzgerald seeks the successful lawyer Campbell Alexander trying to hire him to earn medical emancipation from her mother Sara that wants Anna to donate her kidney to her sister. She tells the lawyer the story of her family after the discovery that her older sister Kate has had leukemia; how she was conceived by in vitro fertilization to become a donor; and the medical procedures she has been submitted since she was five years old to donate to her sister. Campbell accepts to work pro bono and the obsessed Sara decides to go to court to force Anna to help her sister.
the dvd's summary:
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. but their family is rocked by sudden heartbreaking news that forces them to make a different and unorthodox choice in order to save their bay girl's life. the parents' desperate decisions raises both ethical and moral questions and rips away at the foundation of their relationship, their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart, while revealing surprising truths that challenge everyone's perceptions of love and loyalty and give a new meaning to the definition of healing.
here's the book cover:
here's how the movie looked like:
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