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50/50
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
2011 · Directed by Jonathan Levine · 100 min · Comedy · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 16 frames
Tagline
It takes a pair to beat the odds.
Plot
Mild-mannered Adam Lerner is a 27-year-old public radio journalist in Seattle. His loyal but immature best friend Kyle disapproves of his girlfriend Rachael, an artist. After experiencing severe pains in his back, Adam is diagnosed with schwannoma neurofibrosarcoma, a cancerous tumor in his spine, and must undergo chemotherapy.
Searching on the Internet, Adam sees that the survival rate for his diagnosis is 50/50. After he reveals this to his emotional mother Diane, who is already nursing her Alzheimer's-stricken husband Richard, she offers to care for him. Adam declines, as Rachael has already promised to do so.
At one of his treatments, Adam meets Mitch and Alan, two older cancer patients also undergoing chemo, and they become friends, bonding through cannabis-laced macaroons. Rachael is uncomfortable with the idea of accompanying him during his treatments and is often late picking him up. She also gets Adam a retired racing greyhound named Skeletor as a pet.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Written by: Will Reiser
- Cinematography: Terry Stacey
- Edited by: Zene Baker
- Music: Michael Giacchino
- Production design: Annie Spitz
- Produced by: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Ben Karlin
Cast
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Adam Lerner
- Seth Rogen as Kyle Hirons
- Anna Kendrick as Katherine McKay
- Bryce Dallas Howard as Rachael
- Anjelica Huston as Diane Lerner
- Serge Houde as Richard Lerner
- Philip Baker Hall as Alan
- Matt Frewer as Mitch
- Andrew Airlie as Dr. Ross
- Peter Kelamis as Phil
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Mandate Pictures, Point Grey Pictures
- Budget: $8,000,000
- Box office: $39,187,783
- Themes: friendship, parent child relationship, therapist, painter, cancer, psychologist, hospital, best friend, doctor, patient
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