Case Number 17802   New Line // 2009 // 109 Minutes // Rated
PG-13 Reviewed by Judge David Johnson // November 30th, 2009
The Charge  What it means to be a family.  Opening Statement
From Nick Cassavetes, director of The Notebook, comes the story
of a family torn apart by a daughter's illness and the shocking
decision her little sister springs on them.  Facts of the Case
Cameron Diaz (Charlie's Angels) stars as the mother of the
family, a grief-stricken, hollowed-out woman who has given up
everything to keep her leukemia-stricken daughter alive. In
fact, she and her husband (Jason Patric, The Lost Boys) go as
far as having another child specifically to supply their ailing
daughter with much-needed transplants. Anna (Abigail Breslin,
Little Miss Sunshine) is the "designer offspring." She's had
quite enough of this poking and prodding and isn't too keen on
coughing up a kidney, so she tracks down a lawyer (Alec Baldwin,
30 Rock) and pushes to medically emancipate herself from her
family.  This decision sends