50/50 (2011)

Editor's Note Written by Will Reiser who based the film on his own experiences fighting cancer, Jonathan Levine's poignant comedy 50/50 stars Joseph Gordonn-Levitt as Adam, a 27-year old public radio employee who discovers he has cancer. As his best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen) tries to help out, his girlfriend Rachael (Bryce Dallas Howard) proves to be a less than ideal life partner for this particular crisis. All the while, Adam's overprotective mother Diane (Anjelica Huston) tries to overcome her son's continued attempts to keep her out of his life. As Adam begins to discover how hard it is to deal with his situation, and to maintain various relationships in his life, he begins seeing a young counselor (Anna Kendrick) who might prove to be just as helpful personally as she is professionally. Matt Frewer and Philip Baker Hall co-star as Adam's fellow chemotherapy patients.

	Anjelica Huston
	Bryce Dallas Howard
	Seth Rogen
	Joseph Gordon-Levitt
	Anna Kendrick
	Laura Bertram - Co-Star
	Philip Baker Hall - Co-Star
	Serge Houde - Co-Star
	Donna Yamamoto - Co-Star
	Chilton Crane - Co-Star
	Daniel Bacon - Co-Star
	Adrian McMorran - Co-Star
	Jason Vaisvila - Co-Star
	Sarah Smyth - Co-Star
	Will Reiser - Co-Star
	Susan McLellan - Co-Star
	Jessica Parker Kennedy - Co-Star
	Lauren Miller - Co-Star
	Stephanie Belding - Co-Star
	Karen VanBlankenstin - Co-Star
	Matty Finochio - Co-Star
	Marie Avgeropoulos - Co-Star
	Luisa d'Oliveira - Co-Star
	Andrea Brooks - Co-Star
	Ryan W. Smith - Co-Star
	Amitai Marmorstein - Co-Star
	Sugar Lyn Beard - Co-Star
	William "Bigsleeps" Stewart - Co-Star
	Bonnie Bollivar - Co-Star
	Beatrice Ilg - Co-Star
	Neil Corbett - Co-Star
	Karolina Sabat - Co-Star
	Christopher DeSchuster - Co-Star
	Marlow the Wonderdog - Co-Star
	P. Lynn Johnson - Co-Star
	Veena Sood - Co-Star
	Peter Kelamis - Co-Star
	Brent Sheppard - Co-Star
	Richard C. Burton - Co-Star
	Yee Jee Tso - Co-Star
	Shane Vieau - Set Decorator
	Will Reiser - Screenwriter
	Gabe Hilfer - Music Director
	Wildfire Visual Effects - Visual Effects Designer
	Andrea Simpson - Hairstylist
	Andrew Airlie - Co-Star
	Matt Frewer - Co-Star
	Scott Ateah - Stunt Coordinator
	Gary Bourgeois - Sound Re-Recording
	Terry Stacey - Director of Photography
	Nancy Kirhoffer - Post-Production Supervisor
	Michael Giacchino - Composer
	David Dowling - Production Manager/UPM
	Jim Black - Music Director
	Tanya Hudson - Makeup Designer
	Jonathan Levine - Director

Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "Working from an autobiographical and aggressively competent script by Will Reiser, director Jonathan Levine smoothly realizes this memoir as a modest production that's disarmingly relatable..." 09/12/2011

Los Angeles Times
"[With] artful direction by Jonathan Levine and an expertly assembled cast....50/50 may seem like an unlikely hybrid, but it grows on you." 09/30/2011

Entertainment Weekly
"[I]t's the Rogen-Goldberg touch, with the duo's characteristic SUPERBAD mash of the sweet and the bracingly coarse, that sells this unusual downer/upper of a life-and-death comedy." -- Grade: B 10/07/2011

A.V. Club
"[I]t achieves the laughter-through-tears effect...thanks to the lightness and wit of Reiser's script; strong, committed performances; and some real insight into the difficulties of being supportive -- or, on the other end accepting that support." 09/29/2011

Rolling Stone
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "A movie handled with this kind of care is a rare gift. Refusing to hide from pain or bow to it, 50/50 makes its own rules." 10/13/2011

Chicago Sun-Times
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Director Jonathan Levine has established the characters with enough care that the audience is prepared when they reveal greater depth toward the end." 09/28/2011

Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "Jonathan Levine's film will get you, all right, but it'll get you with uniformly excellent performances, a moving and well-deployed soundtrack and, most impressive of all, genuine emotional truths." 12/01/2011

Washington Post
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "50/50 takes the hackneyed convention of illness-driven melodrama and reinvigorates it with honesty, clear-eyed compassion and unsentimental wit." 09/30/2011