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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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ANC

8Mar13

JGL and I will get married.

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4LOM

5Jan13

Ein ziemlich belangloses Filmchen, in dem aber immerhin Joseph Gordon-Levitt sehenswert ist. Notiz an mich: In Zukunft vermeiden, Filme mit Seth Rogen zu gucken. Liegt es an dem Typen oder an seinen Rollen, dass ich ihn nicht ausstehen kann?

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Aurora

27Dec12

I tried, just for Seth, but nah. Terrible.

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mllekeri

13Dec12

I had high hopes for this film, but even the talented Joseph Gordon-Levitt could not make up for the shallow writing, undeveloped characters, and empty plot. All of the women in this film exist to be fucked, romanced, or ignored. The talented Angelica Houston plays a nagging mother, with other women only entering in a man's world to spread their legs or light the stove. Seth Rogen plays his usual stoner self.

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    Jonathan Cribbs

    21Jan13

    I think you might be a little too focused on the whole female thing. Houston's character is revealed to be more than just a "nagging mother." And Anna Kendrick's character is far more nuanced than you're suggesting. You're being reductive.

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    Marta

    13Feb13

    I don't think he is tbh. Kendick's character comes across as a shallow doctor who ends up with her own patient. Sad rather than romantic. Rogen playis the asshole the whole time except wait he read a book about cancer so now he's the ultimate best friend, while if someone can't stand being with someone with such a serious disease then it's a worthless bitch (ok she had been behaving in a wrong way but damn don't they go a little TOO heavy on her? Destroying her things? Seriously?)

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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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[Last Film I Saw] 50/50

By lasttim​eisaw on November 9, 2012

Title: 50/50
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Jonathan Levine
Writer: Will Reiser
Cast:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Seth Rogen…  read review

50/50

By Stephan​ie Brown on June 27, 2012

50/50 seems to be in a genre of films that shouldn’t exist. To label it a “cancer comedy” should seem to condemn it to a series of films too contradictory to be of quality (Judd Apatow’s “Funny People”…  read review

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

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