A photoshopped idyll of middle class American family life is how this sob fest begins (I ain't giving anything away, this is by the same author as ‘Notebook' for crying out loud). One of the daughters has cancer, so the parents deliberately have another child to provide a donor, said donor reaches an age when she becomes less enamoured about constantly going under the scalpel for her older sis and takes her parents (in particular the obsessive/deranged mum) to court for a stab at freedom (see wh find out more...

Hanks deservedly won an Oscar for his portrayal of a brilliant young lawyer with AIDS, is sacked for "incompetence", and sues his bosses. Denzel Washington is superb as the homophobic brief who helps him fight the system. Excellent and thought-provoking. find out more...