50/50
Director: Jonathan Levine
Writer: Will Reiser
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Matt Frewer, Philip Baker Hall, Anjelica Huston

Plot:
Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is only 27 when he is diagnosed with cancer. Completely shocked, he tries to re-arrange his life to accomodate that fact and to beat the disease, as do his friends and family. But everybody is completely overwhelmed by the situation from his best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen) to his girlfriend Rachael (Bryce Dallas Howard), his mother (Anjelica Huston). Even his young and inexperienced therapist Katherine (Anna Kendrick) isn’t much help.

I’m wary when it comes to movies with Seth Rogen/menchildren/stoner humor – they are not my thing. And this movie had the potential to end up just there. But fortunately, it didn’t. Instead it was a wonderful, touching and even funny film that I enjoyed very much.

The first reason this movie works as well as it does is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He is absolutely fantastic and carries the movie pretty much single-handedly. Seth Rogen, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anna Kendrick pretty much do their usual thing – which they’re not bad at, but it’s nothing to write home about either.

But Joseph Gordon-Levitt is absolutely outstanding. He really makes Adam come alive – in all his phases, the good and the bad. The only one who can really keep up with him is Anjelica Huston (I guess that’s to noone’s surprise).

The script is also pretty good. It all felt very realistic, from the issues within the system to how the people around Adam reacted to him and his cancer. Especially the relationship between Adam and his mum felt so completely spot-on.

The only thing that made me a bit uncomfortable was [SPOILER] the romance between Adam and Katherine. As it came from a therapeutic relationship that was just a bit icky. [/SPOILER] Though I thought that they did handle it rather well, for what it was.

In any case the film made me fight and cry with Adam and I loved it.

Summarising: See it.