50/50 (2011)

Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anjelica Huston, Philip Baker Hall

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Description: Inspired by personal experiences, 50/50 is an original story about friendship, love, survival and finding humor in unlikely places. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star as best friends whose lives are changed by a cancer diagnosis in this new comedy directed by Jonathan Levine from a script by Will Reiser. 50/50 is the story of a guy's transformative and, yes, sometimes funny journey to health - drawing its emotional core from Will Reiser's own experience with cancer and reminding us that friendship and love, no matter what bizarre turns they take, are the greatest healers.

Release Date: 9/30/2011

Genre: Comedy

Studio: Summit Entertainment

Offical Website: http://www.50-50themovie.com/

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Release Dates:

Country	Release Type	Date
United States	Theatrical Wide Release	9/30/2011
Australia	Theatrical Wide Release	11/10/2011
Germany	Theatrical Wide Release	5/3/2012
Chile	Theatrical Wide Release	4/12/2012
United States	DVD/Blu-ray Release	1/24/2012

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09/30/2011 @ 12:00 AM

Still, it's Gordon-Levitt's choices that continue to impress. Sure, he owned one of the most jaw-dropping sequences in last summer's blockbuster Inception. But the actor remains drawn to profoundly human-scale hurts and quiet triumphs.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

Gordon-Levitt is an agreeably undemonstrative actor who plays well opposite the burbly Rogen.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

Chances are about 90/10 that you'll enjoy 50/50.

Tom Long, Detroit News

Scene by scene, 50/50 can be both amusing and moving, with the tightly wound Gordon-Levitt and the boundaryless Rogen forming an oddly complementary pair. But as a whole the movie never quite coheres.

Dana Stevens, Slate

In other hands, Adam might well be hard to take. But as the comedy in 50/50 turns darker, Gordon-Levitt, who's maybe the most natural, least affected actor of his generation, makes prickly plenty engaging.

Bob Mondello, NPR

An everyman tale with plenty of heart and honesty, the serious subject matter is regularly enlivened with jolts of genuine hilarity, some of it in delightfully questionable taste.

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star

What ensues is \Beaches\ meets \Pineapple Express.\ Which, I've got to tell you, is pretty much what living with cancer is like.

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon.com

Director Jonathan Levine has the ideal approach to the material, which is to stand aside, frame each scene honestly and let the actors drive the story.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

The truly outrageous idea, that you can use being gravely ill to get sympathy hookups for yourself and your friends - as underlined in the movie's original, better title, \I'm With Cancer\ - is given short shrift.

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

It succeeds mostly thanks to stellar work by the wonderful Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who capably handles the dramatic heavy lifting, and Seth Rogen, who delivers big laughs as his raunchy bud.

Lou Lumenick, New York Post

\50/50\ takes the hackneyed convention of illness-driven melodrama and reinvigorates it with honesty, clear-eyed compassion and unsentimental wit.

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

\50/50\ is a low-key, authentic, warm-hearted film the cast is one of the best of the year.

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com

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09/29/2011 @ 12:00 AM

50/50 nimbly draws humor out of a young man's illness, walks a tightrope of tragicomedy and touches on all the right points.

Claudia Puig, USA Today

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03/29 @ 7:39 AM

How '50/50' Writer Will Reiser Changed Lives and Became an Accidental Icon

Jordan Zakarin By channeling his experience with cancer into a hit film, the young screenwriter touched many -- and earned a very unique award. read more

The Hollywood Reporter

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03/20 @ 4:04 PM

Seth Rogen Cops New Police Comedy

Kevin Hart will be his partner Seth Rogen made for a very funny police officer in Superbad . And though his mall cop in Observe And Report was less effective at arresting our funny bones, hes clearly decided that he needs to get back into uniform, signing on to co-star with Kevin Hart in a new, untitled comedy film. So far very little is known about the pic, which writer Rodney Rothman pitched to Paramount. But we do know that Rothman is describing it as the first interracial police pairing in law enforcement history. Which sounded like a joke on your typical police pairing, but actually refers to the film being set in a post-World War II jazz era, and has the pair investigating a drugs ring. According to Variety , its an idea that Rothman has been cooking up in his brain for a few years now, and has had a connection with Rogen since they worked together on Judd Apatows col (Read More)

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