Cinema Science

Alec Baldwin has joined Cameron Diaz, Dakota Fanning, and Elle Fanning in what sounds like the most convoluted plot I have ever heard in My Sister's Keeper, director Nick Cassavetes' adaptation of Jodi Picoult's novel for New Line. Baldwin will play the attorney who represents a child (Elle Fanning) who is suing her parents for emancipation on the grounds that they bred her to be a genetic match that could help her cancer-ridden sister (Dakota Fanning). The girl's mother (Diaz) is a former trial lawyer and represents herself in court.