50/50

Comedy, Dry
4 stars
Very good movie, as long as you don’t mind Seth Rogen playing his usual lewd and crude self obsessed with getting laid. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as a regular guy living a healthy lifestyle when he learns his back pains are caused by spinal cancer. His best friend Seth Rogen tries to cheer him up, his Mom, Angelica Huston, drives him nuts and his psychologist, Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air), is woefully inexperienced. Although it's a comedy, this film still treats cancer with sensitivity and tact as you root for Gordon-Levitt, a young man whose future may be cut way too short. Well done.