In an interview with People magazine about her new book “By Any Other Name,” author Jodi Picoult revealed that her inspiration for the novel came from the “horrific experience” she had with the 2009 film adaptation of “My Sister's Keeper.”

"It kind of goes back to when I had a horrible experience adapting 'My Sister's Keeper,'" Picoult said. "It took me a long time to understand that they didn't ruin my book. My book is still there. And anyone who reads my book is still going to get the story that I intended."

"My Sister's Keeper," starring Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin, holds a 47% score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. However, former Variety film critic Justin Chang gave it a glowing review upon its release in 2009, writing, "Unsubtle, uneven and undeniably effective, this take-no-prisoners cancer weepie presents a fascinating moral dilemma — a girl fighting her parents for the right to control her body while her older sister wastes away from leukemia — as a pretext for an all-out assault on the viewer's tear ducts."

Directed by Nick Cassavetes, the film follows Anna Fitzgerald (Breslin), who sues her parents for medical emancipation by donating her empty kidney to her sister, who is dying of leukemia. Made on a budget of $30 million, the film squeaked to profitability, grossing just under $50 million at the domestic box office.