Weekend Movie Forecast: The Hurt Locker Vs. Transformers

When we saw the preview for My Sister's Keeper, a melodrama about two parents who genetically engineer a child whose organs they can harvest to save their other leukemia-afflicted daughter, we thought it had to be a wickedly risky black comedy. After all, the engineered daughter ends up rebelling and hiring a lawyer, played by Alec Baldwin, to protect her organs in court. But apparently My Sister's Keeper is for real. A.O. Scott at the Times writes, "The prospect of a child’s death is so awful that to broach it in a movie or a book requires a special measure of caution and sensitivity. Or so you might think."