I know that I’m behind with my reading and news but I was so surprised to read this week that the ending of the movie, My Sister’s Keeper, that came out in June was changed! Movies made from books are seldom as good as the book but to change the ending and to still call it My Sister’s Keeper based on the novel by Jodi Picoult? Wow! How could they do that? 
I never planned to see the movie simply because it is a “crier.” I don’t like to go movies and be emotionally drained when I leave at the end. I am a happy ending person and that’s what I like in my books, movies, and life in general. I did read the book in 2004 and that powerful story has stayed with me. It truly was a beautiful, moving story and the heartbreaking ending tied everything together. Here’s what I wrote about it in our Reading Room: http://readingroom.rrpl.org/itemdtl.asp?bid=5158
Jodi Picoult is not too happy either about the ending but accepts it as part of the movie. She had no say in what was changed for the screenplay. This is what she said: http://www.jodipicoult.com
If you want to know the two different endings, check out: http://www.moviefone.com/insidemovies/2009/06/29/my-sisters-keeper-movie-ending/
As for me, I’m glad to have read the book! Happy Reading! ~Donna
Read it or Weep 
This film makes me soooo angry!!
I can’t believe they took all the meaning out of the book by changing the ending. I’ve actually thrown things at the TV when I see the trailer!
The book is brilliant, but the film seems to have chickened out of anything remotely contraversial to try and make more money, ending uip with meaningless pap instead of a movie.
I feel bad for Picoult that her name has been put to such rubbish.