50/50

It takes a pair to beat the odds

Based on a true story, a young man learns he has a potentially fatal form of cancer. His family and best friend try to help and exploit the situation, but he eventually comes to rely on three new people in his life as he faces make-or-break surgery.

100 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Drug abuse).
Biographical, Comedy, Drama, On the art circuit

Why won't you just get a haircut?

Credits

Cast	Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anjelica Huston, Serge Houde, Andrew Airlie
Director	Jonathan Levine
Screenplay	Will Reiser
Music	Michael Giacchino
Cinematography	Terry Stacey
Editing	Zene Baker
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Made in	2011
Produced by	Mandate Pictures, Point Gray

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama, comedy, romance
Language	Strong, frequent
Nudity	Mild, subtle
Sex	Moderate, infrequent
Violence	None
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Strong, brief
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Helen Herimbi Fixing ills one laugh at a time	10
Die Burger Jeanne Calitz Komedie takel donker onderwerp	10
Cape Times Kirk Honeycutt Cancer sitcom (with depth)	10
Box Office David Ehrlich Heads you laugh, tails you die.	10
ScreenIt T. Durgin Not a perfect cancer movie - whatever that would be - but a movie that still manages to touch and even illuminate those who are open to the experience.	12
Metacritic.com 41 critics	14
Rottentomatoes critics 147 critics	16
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer A good-hearted film about a difficult topic, 50/50 maneuvers between jokes and drama with surprising finesse.	19
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	16
Movie Review Intelligence 51 critics	16
What the People say
Internet 7930 Netizens This movie gets it.	17
Average .. 68%	14