50/50 2011 123movies

Watch: 50/50 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	7.6/10 Votes: 331,315
	93% | RottenTomatoes
	72/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 3275 Popularity: 35.547 | TMDB

Reviews:

Hilarious and touching at the same time
Mixing cancer and comedy doesn’t seem like it should go so well, but 50/50 is a film that makes it work. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Adam, a 27 year old easy going guy who unexpectedly gets diagnosed with cancer. The film details his struggle to beat the disease and all the hardships that come along with having to fight a disease as crippling as cancer at such a young age. Adam is surrounded by various other people in his life that all influence him in different ways. Seth Rogen plays his best friend, Kyle, who always tries to help Adam out, but doesn’t always know how to go about it. Anna Kendrick plays Adam’s therapist, Katherine, whose attempts to help Adam cope with the cancer work at times, but at other times she just can’t find the right way to connect with the grieving youngster. Bryce Dallas Howard plays Adam’s girlfriend and Anjelica Houston is one of the strongest characters, Adam’s overprotective mother. The film is a compassionate tale of love and friendship while simultaneously being a raunchy pothead comedy. The overlap is strange, but it works incredibly well.

There are so many ways to do a comedy film about cancer wrong, but very few ways to do it right. 50/50 thankfully manages to find the sweetspot of this risky terrain and succeeds in being a charmingly touching film as well as a wildly hilarious one. The writer of the film, Will Reiser, based the film on his own experiences with fighting and beating cancer at a young age, and his passion and understanding of this story shine beautifully through the film and its characters which surely all resemble Reiser’s own friends and family in some way. 50/50 doesn’t lean too far to either side of the comedy versus drama spectrum and it always maintains a consistent level of heartwarming hilarity balanced with touching sincerity. The drama and comedy weave in and out of each other perfectly and seamlessly with neither genre feeling inappropriate or out of place. It is sincere filmmaking at its finest.

Moreover, 50/50 just does a great job with its balance of genres, but also with the overall story and the great characters within that story. We grow such passionate empathy for Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a way I never thought could be possible. The film draws us into his troubled world so well and we are rooting for him all the way, cheering on his every move and growing more and more attached to him with every passing moment. We also grow to love the supporting cast who, with the exception of one particular character but I won’t spoil anything, support Adam through all his hard times. The characters are all so well written and they play their key roles in Adam’s life perfectly. 50/50 is a movie structured to where every character serves a major purpose in furthering Adam’s development as well as the development of the plot. And so as we watch the relationships between Adam and the people in his life grow and fade we develop a deeper understanding of his character, making 50/50 an incredibly human story.

It’s always nice to be so surprised by a film’s quality. I expected good things from 50/50 from the first time I saw a trailer, but the movie itself exceeded my expectations. It is what the dramady subgenre is all about. It is a film tailor made to be the subgenre’s posterchild. I laughed, I lamented, and I was brought close to tears at how heartwarming and touching of a film 50/50 is.

50/50
Cancer has always been a serious subject, and when used in films it is always tearjerking and realistic, Terms of Endearment for example, so you would never think that they could make a comedy film where it is the main plot, but then this came along. Basically twenty seven year old public radio journalist Adam Lerner (Golden Globe nominated Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is just your normal average guy with artist girlfriend Rachael (Bryce Dallas Howard) and co-worker best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen). His life dramatically changes however when he goes to the doctor suffering with strange aches and pains, and he is diagnosed with a very rare form of spinal cancer, meaning that he will undergo chemotherapy, and looking the disease up on the internet it looks like he has a 50/50 chance of survival. Adam tells Kyle who sticks very close with him for support and to give him positivity about his condition, and when he tells his overbearing mother Diane (Anjelica Huston), who cares for his father Richard (Serge Houde) who is suffering Alzheimer’s disease, she is very concerned. He does accept his mother’s offer to stay at their house to be cared for, and Rachael, despite being uncomfortable going with him to hospital, says that she will help take care of him, that is until Kyle sees her kissing another man and reveals this to Adam. After the break up Kyle keeps his spirits up, and he says that Adam should try and use his disease for his own benefit, such as picking up women who will feel sympathetic, so with a shaved head, prior to chemotherapy, they try this theory out. Seeking more positivity and advice Adam starts seeing young and inexperienced therapist Katherine McKay (Up in the Air’s Anna Kendrick), they start a rocky relationship of sessions, but he opens up to her about many things and they start to see each other outside of sessions as friends, and he also becomes friends with fellow chemotherapy patients Alan (Philip Baker Hall) and Mitch (Matt Frewer). Mitch dies and fears are obviously welling up inside of Adam, especially after he discovers the therapy is not working and a risky surgery is the last resort, and the night before he has a bad argument with a drunken Kyle, and he calls Katherine to get some much needed support. The next day Kyle and he make amends and go to the hospital, and after the six hour operation to remove the tumour the doctors tell Kyle, Diane, Katherine and Richard that the bone degradation was worse than first thought, but the surgery was successful and they hear Adam will recover. The film ends happily with Adam recovering very well, with Kyle rubbing cream onto the huge scar on his back, and he is getting ready for a date with Katherine, and together they smile wondering what the future will hold. Also starring Andrew Airlie as Dr. Ross. Gordon-Levitt gives a good vulnerable and touching performance as the victim to the fateful disease, Rogen gives his usual great brash and sometimes foul-mouthed performance as his best friend, together they are a good double act, and other cast members Howard, Kendrick and Houston also do well being concerned and supportive, the story does not make any jokes about what is happening to the character, but it does leave room for social and dialogue humour, so it all adds up to an interesting comedy drama. It was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical. Good!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min)
Budget 8000000
Revenue 39187783
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Jonathan Levine
Writer Will Reiser
Actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick
Country United States
Awards 12 wins & 28 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, SDDS, Datasat
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA, Technicolor Creative Services, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate), Technicolor Creative Services, Vancouver, Canada (digital intermediate), Technicolor Digital Intermediates, Los Angeles (CA), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length 2,750 m (Portugal, 35mm)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna-CP 3514DI), D-Cinema