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Genre | Comedy |
Format | NTSC, Subtitled, Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Widescreen, Dolby, Anamorphic |
Contributor | Jonathan Levine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 40 minutes |
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Based on an incredible real-life experience, 50/50 is a funny, touching and original story of friendship, love, and survival starring Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anjelica Huston.
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Since actor-coproducer Seth Rogen helped to bring Superbad to life, 50/50 might also suggest a sex comedy, except Jonathan Levine's film is more like a drama with comedy sequences (some of which involve sex). In a switch from his Inception smoothie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Adam, a strait-laced 27-year-old who works in Seattle public radio with his hedonistic best friend, Rogen's Kyle. Back pain brings Adam to an oncologist who diagnoses cancer, prescribes chemotherapy, and recommends counseling, which leads him to Katie, a doctoral student (Anna Kendrick) who makes up in compassion what she lacks in experience. If Kyle takes the news with good humor, Adam's girlfriend, Rachael (Kendrick's Twilight costar Bryce Dallas Howard), puts on a strained smile, while his mother (Anjelica Huston) goes into freak-out mode. At the hospital, Adam also befriends two cancer patients (Philip Baker Hall and Matt Frewer) who share their foul-mouthed wisdom--along with marijuana-laced macaroons--but Rachael finally cracks, leaving Adam to fend for himself, except that he isn't as defenseless as he thought, which comes in handy when he finds out the chemo isn't working. Will Reiser, who wrote the script, drew from his own experience, and the results ring true, even if he's too hard on Rachael, who sincerely tries to be supportive. In his follow-up to The Wackness, which centered around a congenial dope dealer, Levine treats the other characters with more respect, and avoids the sentimentality that mars most movies about potentially fatal illnesses--plus, it's a lot funnier. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.6 x 5.4 x 7.5 inches; 1.6 ounces
- Item model number : 24151850
- Director : Jonathan Levine
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled, Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Widescreen, Dolby, Anamorphic
- Run time : 1 hour and 40 minutes
- Release date : January 24, 2012
- Actors : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Summit Entertainment
- ASIN : B004QL7KKC
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #83,777 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #9,918 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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The movie is set in Seattle with Adam and Kyle working for the local news station. These two have been friends since their high school days and are still as close as brothers. While Kyle is the forever fun-seeking type, his friend Adam is more serious and very settled down with his live-in girlfriend Rachael (Bryce Dallas Howard). Adam is especially physically active so when he begins having severe pain in his back which is affecting his running and follows right into his intimate life, he seeks out a doctor's diagnosis. He receives the informative results in a stoic and clinically impersonal doctoral report. This is rare cancer located in his lower spine and Adam just cannot understand why this is happening to him as he's only 27 and is in the best of health.
He explains the diagnosis to Rachael. He also explains everything to his mother, Diane (Anjelica Huston), and to his father who is struggling with Alzheimer's disease himself all at a family dinner. Adam has been reticent to let his mother know anything may be wrong because of her, at times, overbearing and overprotective nature, but of first importance to him is to inform his buddy Kyle straight away. He is usually a very jocular guy although literally starts gagging and dry heaving. He then starts explaining how celebrities "beat this all the time" in his own unique way. Kyle does nothing wrong concerning his sense of humor, he keeps it in balance with the frightening experiences that Adam goes through and never leaves him nor stops supporting him through the entirety of his experiences.
As Adam begins going through his rounds of chemotherapy he meets and is always with, two older gentlemen who add another element of humor to this. It seems as if there is an amount of humor in every situation, while the subject of cancer isn't funny whatsoever. It also is as if this movie does not need to apologize nor excuse the fact that there is humor in such a dire situation. There is a definite ease to this, that would border on hysterical concerning some situations with Kyle and Adam. Seth Rogen is unpolished, as usual, although totally perfect as a best friend to Gordon-Levitt's character. Keeping his friend from sinking below the surface at all times, allowing for sadness to come out and then land with such a faithful upswing afterward which only Kyle could provide.
These two remain loyal friends throughout it all. Kyle using Adam's cancer to help him (Adam) find women to date, just being typical guys through everything Adam has to suffer. Humor always abounds in this story, and it isn't necessary for restraining laughter from it. This being a very bold statement. That is why I did my homework on this film first: listening to other's positions on this including Seth Rogen in several interviews, and read everything that I could beforehand. I had to weigh this heavily before viewing this myself, as cancer has touched my own life personally. I had no idea how a movie that has a cancer theme could be hysterically funny: Well, it is and it intrigues me still.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is dynamic in his performance, he's subtle and bold. He is full of dry humor and also able to convey the full-out emotional side of it also. Seth Rogen is 'pure swearing magic' (I can hardly believe I just wrote that) and made this movie possible, literally. He also shows such a loyal persona that I haven't seen from his performances before. If you didn't really appreciate him before seeing this movie, I think you will after. The best part of this movie is that it allows the theme of cancer to get out for some driving room. One could remain down in the quagmire of it all while watching, although this is equipped with a lift on board that hoists you right over the top with each new scene. It's fast-paced, funny, heartbreaking and hysterical: what a movie. A comedy that is not making bold blanketed statements, it is only regarding one man's experience along with his best friend and it is quite remarkable at that.
I would have actually spent the $15 for a ticket, and $30 for the drink and popcorn, but I think it's a better in home movie so you could really watch and pay attention to it, and rewind if you miss something.
Great job to all on the film.
I'm usually the "over-sentimental cheese head" and my best bud is a little bit of the opposite. The two of us had a similar experience back in October 2010. I had just underwent triple bypass heart surgery and during the recovery process I had almost lost my life. I remember very little of what had happened within a 9 day time-span. I think there is about 20 minutes of time that will be engrained into my memory for the lost two weeks; but honestly, that's really it.
I was in and out of consciousness and every single day, my best friend was there. Even with me having no knowledge of anything or anyone being there.
The film struck such a chord that after I had finished watching it, I immediately found myself on amazon ordering my buddy a copy. Mind you, I think I had about maybe $50.00 left in my checking account until my next disability payment which was a week and a half a way.
Three months after my surgery, with no choice at all, I had to leave my hometown and move over 500 miles away. Because of an intensively nasty relationship with my stepmother (my Mother had ironically passed away 4 years to the day I found out I required emergency heart surgery) and her son (who live in my father's house), I was unable to come home. At the time I was living with a roommate who was severely disturbed and my best friend was unemployed and stuck living at home with his parents. With no resources left I had to move out of state and with some friends from college in the middle of literally nowhere. If it were not for my friends taking me in, I would have been very ill and very homeless.
That being all said, the film really, really hit a nerve. Despite a few "hard to believe" moments designed to move the film forward; it truly was something about the relationship and bond two people find within each other. There is a scene where Seth Rogan's character comes storming into his dying friend's home to confront his than girlfriend whom he (Rogan) discovers is cheating on him. The two friends care for each other very deeply and neither of them have have that "homosexual" stereotype that seems to be incorporated into alpha male relationships of such caliber. I respected that about the film. These were two straight best friends who loved each other like brothers. There was no need for cheap "gay jokes", that's something rare these days and I wish it would be shown more often in "buddy pictures."
The film has some great laughs as well as the obvious touching moments. Even with the ending being a bit on the far-fetched side, "50/50" is the perfect movie for anyone who is lucky to have the type of friendship that these two characters do. It is heart warming, thought provoking, funny and above all a very well done film.
Male or female, gay or straight, you'll need a heart of stone to avoid having a box of tissues handy throughout your viewing experience of "50/50." This is one of those movies you watch with your best friend to remind them how much they mean to you when you hit those moments in your relationship where its hard to express how you both feel about each other.
I can't recommend this enough!
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A Seattle, Adam, journaliste insouciant mais un peu maniaque (il aime que tout dans sa vie soit « bien rangé »), à l'annonce de sa maladie, se retrouve à devoir compter sur sa mère (Angelica Huston), autoritaire et envahissante, sa petite amie Rachel (Bryce Dallas-Howard), dévouée mais peu encline à affronter la réalité, et son meilleur ami Kyle (Seth Rogen), fêtard invétéré. C'est pourtant dans cet entourage que se trouvent les clés pour affronter sereinement la maladie et les pénibles séances de chimiothérapie. Quant à l'aide que lui apporte Catherine (Anna Kendrick), sa psychothérapeute débutante dont il n'est que le troisième patient, elle semble bien dérisoire.
La force et la réussite du film résident dans la manière subtile et même drôle avec lequel le réalisateur montre l'évolution de l'état d'esprit d'Adam, qui se sent tout d'abord étonnamment serein. Oscillant entre fuite en avant et remises en question, Adam redécouvre l'importance de l'amour et de l'amitié dans les moindres instants de sa vie, chamboulée par le cancer. Si le scénario de « 50/50 » n'est pas particulièrement original, le jeu des acteurs (vraiment tous excellents) et la réalisation très sobre de Jonathan Levine confère au film une réelle sincérité. Ode à l'amitié et à l'amour, le film sait poser le rire là où la vie cela fait mal.
As far as the extras go, there are some great deleted scenes (sadly few in number) and a hilarious audio commentary, which actually rarely involves discussing the film. I bought the film on blu-ray double play but to be honest I'm not convinced this is a film that really needs it. All the extras are listed as available on the DVD edition and the filming and effects are understated (which works perfectly with the tone of the film) so I'm not convinced the HD adds much to it. Hmmm an excuse to watch again so I can judge by watching on the DVD :-).
Joseph Gordon-Levitt lui est égal à lui même, splendide.
un peu cabontin sans son rôle de Copain, Seth Rogen en fait juste un peu trop.
Préférez la VO plutôt que la VF.