Directed By:
Jonathan Levine
Written By: Will
Reiser
Starring: Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anjelica Huston,
Philip Baker Hall, and Matthew Frewer
Director of Photography: Terry Stacey, Editor: Zene Baker,
Production Designer: Annie Spitz, Original Music: Michael Giacchino
Rated: R for
naughty language and situations.
There’s
no way around it: cancer sucks. No one likes cancer, cause no one likes dying,
or losing their hair, or feeling like you need to vomit all the time. It’s an
easy enemy for the cinematic machine that characters must fight through and
come together to beat. But what if we had a laugh along the way as well?
That’s
the new angle in the new comedic drama, 50/50,
about a young man who finds out he has a rare and ugly type of cancer. The film
is written by Will Reiser, who wrote this screenplay on his own experiences
with battling cancer (sorry, I may have just gave away the ending) at a young
age and the comic absurdities he went through. Mr. Reiser, an alum of Da Ali G Show, would often joke during
his time about writing a comedy about the tragic disease with his then roommate
Seth Rogen. As it turns out, 50/50 is
a little more serious than bizarre, anchored through both its antics and pathos
by a standout Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
