Conceived as a marrow donor for her gravely ill sister, Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) has undergone countless surgeries and medical procedures in her short life. Though their older daughter’s life has no doubt been prolonged, the unorthodox decision of Anna’s parents has cracked the entire family’s foundation. When Anna sues her parents for emancipation, it sets off a court case that threatens to destroy the family for good.

I read this book, by Jodi Picoult about a year ago - maybe two.  When I heard they were turning it into a movie, I was totally thrilled! I loved the book, heartbreaking as it was, and couldn’t wait to see how they would portray it on the big screen!

I had two concerns.  One, how was Cameron Diaz going to pull off the heartbreaking role of the tough - almost bitchy mother? And secondly - please tell me they wouldn’t change the ending! There had been a lot of controversy surrounding the ending of the movie, and Jodi Picoult fans all over the world were begging to keep the movie as the book intended!

I can happily say that Cameron Diaz was amazing. She really was. I thought she nailed the role perfectly. In fact, I thought the whole movie was expertly cast. Everyone played their parts perfectly.

The whole movie is designed to make you cry. From beginning to end - it’s one non-stop cry fest. I actually held out crying until about three quarters in, and then I lost it. It’s one of those movies that’s almost too sad - and they’re trying too hard to make you cry - that you can’t cry.  (Does that make sense?) But almost - because I did eventually cry. And cried HARD I might add.

I’m going to put the rest of my review after the cut because it’s kind of SPOILERISH and I have something to bitch about. Click on more to continue my review. (more…)

Cameron Diaz smiles as she leaves a taping of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in New York City on June 25, 2009 before jetting out of the city.

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Cameron Diaz has nothing but love for her pal Tom Cruise.

When the actress was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, she says it “was great” to see Cruise and wife Katie Holmes gathered with the hundreds of fans to cheer her on.

“I was really happy to see them,” Diaz told Usmagazine.com at the NYC premiere of My Sister’s Keeper Wednesday. “They were wonderful. It was fantastic. It was so lovely of them to come out and show support. My whole family was there and my friends were there. And I consider them that as well. So it was really wonderful to have them there.”

Diaz, who starred with Cruise in 2001’s Vanilla Sky, told Us that she will once again appear on screen with the star.

According to Variety, the pair have approved the script for Wichita, a flick about an undercover agent who meets a woman who’s had nothing but bad luck with men.

The 36-year-old star told Us she can’t wait to start working with Cruise on the movie, which is set for a 2010 release.

“Well, if I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t be doing it,” she said. “I’m very, very excited about doing it. It’s an action film, so I’m really excited to work him.”

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Cameron Diaz smiles and waves to fans as she leaves MTV studios in NYC after taping a segment promoting her new movie, “My Sister’s Keeper,” which premieres tonight, June 24, 2009.

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Cute dress!

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Cameron Diaz is back on the big-screen in the riveting, bittersweet emotional drama ‘My Sister’s Keeper,’ featuring Abigail Breslin and Sofia Vassilieva, and she talks to our Kevin Frazier about what it was like playing a mom.

“I understand what it’s like to love deeply,” she tells Kevin. “I have nieces and nephews. I don’t know what it’s like to have my own child, but I know what it is to care about people.”

In theaters June 26, ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ finds Cameron as Sara, a mother who is devastated when her precious toddler daughter Kate (Sofia) comes down with a rare form of leukemia. Sara and her husband Brian (Jason Patric) conceive another child out of desperation, a daughter named Anna (Abigail), who is a perfect genetic match and will be able to save her sister’s life. But the family’s world is turned upside down with Anna decides, at age 11, to seek emancipation to avoid being forced to give her sister a kidney.

“Each one of them is just doing what they believe is the right thing,” says Cameron of the film’s characters. “What [my character] wants to do is save her child.”

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