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50/50

United States

2011

99 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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DIR Jonathan Levine

EXEC Ryan Kavanaugh, Will Reiser, Tucker Tooley, Nathan Kahane

PROD Evan Goldberg, Ben Karlin, Seth Rogen

SCR Will Reiser

DP Terry Stacey

CAST Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anjelica Huston, Julia Benson, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Beatrice King, Marie Avgeropoulos, Philip Baker Hall, Lauren Miller, Sarah Smyth, Sugar Lyn Beard, Veena Sood, Andrew Airlie, Serge Houde, Luisa D'Oliveira, Andrea Brooks, Will Reiser, Matty Finochio, Darien Provost, Stephanie Belding, Daniel Bacon, Yee Jee Tso, Darla Fay, Mireille Urumuri, Kyle Hunter, William 'Big Sleeps' Stewart, Nicholas Carella, Matt Frewer

ED Zene Baker

PROD DES Annie Spitz

MUSIC Jim Black, Stephen M. Davis, Gabe Hilfer, Michael Giacchino

SOUND David Esparza, Robert Jackson

Toronto (Special Presentations), London (Film on the Square), Ghent (Out of Competition), Stockholm (American Independents): Audience Award, !F Istanbul (Hit Films)

Synopsis

Adam is a 27 year old writer of radio programs and is diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer. With the help of his best friend, his mother, and a young therapist at the cancer center, Adam learns what and who the most important things in his life are. —IMDb

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Jonathan Levine

Jonathan A. Levine (born 18 June 1976 in New York City) is an American film director and screenwriter. Levine won the Audience Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival for his film The Wackness. In January 2010, it was announced that he will direct a project entitled Warm Bodies. It is based on a novel with the same name from writer Isaac Marion. Levine was also director Paul Schrader’s assistant for a time before his own directorial career took off. —Wikipedia 

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Nutter Jr

22May12

A film about a young guy learning he has cancer with 50% chances of dying manages to show what it is like living as if he has 50% of living. Levitt once again proves to be one of the best of his generation.

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Mr.Wolf

10May12

I am dont want to say it, but yes.........I cried. When they are sedating him.....yep the way they build up to that moment, just killed me.

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0023am

8May12

The beginning wasn't really... strong, but I really enjoyed the rest of the movie. I loved Joseph Gordon-Levitt's performance in this movie, and the dog... that dog was amazing.

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Liam Peters

6May12

It's off-puttingly off kilter at the beginning but by about the half-way mark, the film gets right to the core of the story and delves past the shit that tends to cloudy up illness of the week melodramas. The fact that the humour tends to ring true and the performances are uniformly grand don't hurt either. The nuggets of truth are what make 50/50, in the end, so likeable and ultimately a film worth the watch.

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Jonathan Levine's "50/50"

By David Hudson on September 29, 2011

Just about everyone agrees that 50/50 manages its “tricky tonal balance” well. But not everyone agrees as to who’s responsible.

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Second Trailer for Levine's 50/50 Brings Laughs

By Twitchfilm.com on December 17, 2011
We’ve been pretty high on any news out of Summit on Jonathan Levine’s (The Wackness, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) upcoming cancer-laugher 50/50. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen alongside
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50/50's Levine, Rogen, Goldberg & Reiser Reteam for JAMAICA

By Twitchfilm.com on December 17, 2011
It sounds like Jonathan Levine (director of The Wackness) might have fallen in with a crew of filmmakers who are really out to get some movies made. Although the Joseph Gordon-Levitt starring 50/50 doesn’t
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Trailer Lands for Jonathan Levine's Solid Looking 50/50

By Twitchfilm.com on December 17, 2011
Call it a generational thing, but I stand by my assertion that The Wackness is one of the very best films of the last 10 years – and woefully under-appreciated. That story of sex, drugs, and hip-hop came
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TIFF 2011: 50/50 Strikes the Perfect Balance

By Twitchfilm.com on December 16, 2011
Though 50/50 is Jonathan Levine’s third directorial outing, sadly only one of his first two films has yet to see the light of day. All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, Levine’s directorial debut, has languished
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50/50 Review

By Twitchfilm.com on October 1, 2011
Cancer sucks. Cancer killed my grandmother, my mother, and my brother-in-law. Cancer has killed too many friends to count. Therefore, when it comes to movies that deal with cancer, I have followed a policy
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50/50

By Azzy on February 19, 2012

50/50
By azzy
When I first saw the trailer for Jonathan Levine’s 50/50, I knew that it was going to bring me to, if not close to, tears. For it hits close to home as I myself have a friend…  read review

Free flowing comedy.

By LifeofF​iction on December 7, 2011

This is second my favorite comedy of the year, right behind “Midnight in Paris”. Although there are many genres at work in this lovingly honest film. It tells the story of a man named Adam, who is…  read review

50/50 [2011]

By Jesse Taylor on October 21, 2011

Tackling a heavy subject like cancer can be tricky with one genre never mind two. “50/50” manages to seamlessly alternate between drama and comedy without making anything awkward or offensive. The…  read review

50/50 (***)

By never mind pop film on October 11, 2011

Finally, a realistic look at living with cancer. I don’t know why it took a comedy to do it, but now we have it.

Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has it all… well almost. He has a girlfriend (Bryce…  read review

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