My Sister's Keeper - Book versus Film

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[cooliopeace33]

the books better

[butterflysam1987]

The book is way better than the movie!

[trevortes]

The book is simply better. Better character development, Jesse is a more interesting troubled character, Julia Romano is a good character but I think they removed her because they didn't want a love story in the film.

[Sampiiee]

i loved the book. But when i watch the movies, tears start to fall out my eye

[SarBeth94]

I still say that the book is better. love both and the actors were amazing but I hate that they completely changed the ending. I like that Anna died in the book and Kate ending up living. At least then you got a little bit of a happy ending because Kate lived, which was the thing everyone was fighting for. i think that that's a little better than, boo hoo Kate died I so hoped she was going to live.

[EmilyK95]

@NicBean85 Exactly!! :D lol

[NicBean85]

To be honest, I watched the movie first and then read the book and I have to say I love both of them equally. Particularly because you get to keep Anna in the movie, while you get to keep Kate in the book. Having both these perspectives it gives you a strangely comforting feeling...

Needless to say in My Sister's Keeper I found both favorite book AND movie

[NicBean85]

@EmilyK95 that's exactly how I like to do it, too! it is so much more rewarding to watch the movie first and then find out all of the many many details that they had to leave out. it really always is a pleasant surprise and that way I get to love both in their own ways...

[orangerosesky23]

I agree the book is way better! I'm almost done with the book. I tried to watch the movie but stop only a little way into the movie. The emotion was not in it as well as the book portrays it and they changed a lot of things including the ages

[EmilyK95]

Personaly I like to watch the film before I read the book. It helps me grasp the concept a bit better. Also, people always say how they are disappointed when they see the movie after the book, i get to be pleasently surprised :) I did like the ending in the book, definitly a good twist - It was also kind of beautiful, she came into the world to save her sister, when she had fufiled her fate, she left.

[gregory18000]

They shouldn't have made this movie they changed waaaaaay to many things. Please read the book it's so much better.

[sraphael]

The book is beautiful, honest and genuinely emotionally enriched and deep. The film...tries to portray the same thing and in my eyes, fails to do so. To me, the motive behind the film was to force false emotion out into the world through this story they changed entirely for the sake of gaining box office megabucks. (perhaps why big star Cameron Diaz was cast) The film is typically Hollywood, precisely as it appears in the trailer and does not serve the original story justice. Read the book!!