Jeremy Leven and the director adapted Jodi Picoult's novel. Nick has cast well / brought out the best acting in splendid cast: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, Jason Patric, Alec Baldwin, Thomas Dekker, Evan Ellingson, David Thornton (sympathetic doctor), Joan Cusack. The narration from different characters works well, and the story begins and ends on a court case and has an unexpected love story in the middle. Very good story-telling.
Unfortunately Breslin's work since the 2013 August: Osage County has been patchy, Vassilieva's CV is similarly unsensational.
It's beautifully photographed by Caleb Deschanel and edited by Alan Heim (All That Jazz, Network) and Jim Flynn.
Of Cassavetes' career, he appears as an actor in not well rated things, made the delicious Unhook the Stars in 1996 followed by the horrible She's So Lovely, then followed with high rated John Q, The Notebook, Alpha Dog and then this, and unfortunately hasn't had a hit since. It seems like this film was a sort of unlucky charm...
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