My Sisters Keeper (Ending)

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Saw this film last night and loved it :D

Ending was very sad as expected :(

However I found out that the film ending and book ending are very different.

The book enRAB with...

Anna wins her court case, then while driving to the hospital with her attorney, they are in an accident. Anna is brain dead, and her lawyer, who now has power of attorney, gives permission for her kidney to be given to Kate. Kate then makes a full recovery and goes into remission

I'm glad that the film did not do this ending.

Any thoughts?
 
I felt let down by the ending, i wanted them to stick to the book, but they changed to much other stuff in the film for me to fully enjoy it.
 
I havent read the book so I can only judge on what I've seen, but I think how the story progressed in the film ment that if the ending had stayed true to the book it would have perhaps felt out of place
 
I read the book before I saw the film, and unlike other changes to the story
like the whole business with her brother (the pyromania subplot is dropped, so he doesn't have much of a reason to be miserable here)
I can see why it was changed (although there are fans of Jodi Picoult who aren't happy at all!). I'm glad it was, however...like ChryedBabies said, it would have seemed an ill fit with what came before.

Not only is Anna my favourite character in the book (along with the lawyer) but having her be braindead after getting her medical emancipation would have been too much of a convenient plot twist (not that the movie isn't guilty of that a little itself - note how the court rules in Anna's favour after Kate passes away. But I'm glad they kept the lawyer's epilepsy.
 
Very sad film, the girls are brilliant actors. I haven't read the book but I think the ending was better than how OP says it ended in the book.

I think it's hard because when you read a book and love it, you want the film to stay completely true to the authors interpretation and you feel that any deviations generally act as a desservice to the plot or the characters from the book (how it was originally intended). Like for me with The Time Travellers Wife.

When you haven't read the book, it's easier to take the movie as you find it because you don't have a clear, visualised idea of an alternative ending.
 
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