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March 17, 2008 — Gregg Goldstein reports: "Jason Patric and Thomas Dekker will join Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin in the drama "My Sister's Keeper" for New Line.

Director Nick Cassavetes' adaptation of Jodi Picoult's novel follows a former district attorney (Diaz) and her fireman husband (Patric) who are sued by their 13-year-old daughter (Breslin) for emancipation. The daughter was conceived and underwent several operations to help save her ill older sister (Sofia Vassilieva). Dekker (Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles") plays the older sister's boyfriend and a fellow cancer survivor. Alec Baldwin and Joan Cusack also star.

The film is shooting in Los Angeles with New Line's Merideth Finn and Mark Kaufman overseeing production for the studio. Patric is repped by Endeavor and Untitled. Dekker is repped by ICM and Untitled. "