50 (2011 film)

5050 is a 2011 American comedydrama film directed by Jonathan Levine, from a screenplay written by Will Reiser, starring Joseph GordonLevitt and Seth Rogen, with Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Serge Houde, Philip Baker Hall, Matt Frewer, and Anjelica Huston in supporting roles. The film is loosely inspired by Reisers own experience with cancer.

After experiencing harsh pains in his back, Adam learns from his doctor that he has schwannoma neurofibrosarcoma a malignant tumor in his spine, and must undergo chemotherapy. He sees on the Internet that his chances of survival are fiftyfifty. After Adam reveals his diagnosis, his overbearing mother, Diane, who already cares for her husband Richard suffering from Alzheimers, wants to move in and care for him. Adam rejects this offer, as Rachael has promised to be the one to take care of him. Rachael, however, is uncomfortable going into the hospital during Adams chemo treatments and is often late to pick him up, as Adam doesnt drive she also gets him a retired racing greyhound named Skeletor as a companion animal. Throughout Adams struggle, Kyle attempts to keep Adams spirits high, which include helping Adam shave his head prior to chemotherapy and openly using Adams illness to pick up women. While on a date with one such woman, however, Kyle sees Rachael at an art gallery, kissing another man, and forces her to come clean to Adam this proves to be the final straw in their already strained relationship, and Adam breaks up with her for good. Now single, he eventually started to follow Kyles lead, and the two use his illness to successfully pick up two women at a bar.Meanwhile, Adam skeptically begins going to a young and inexperienced therapist, Katherine McKay Kendrick, a PhD candidate doing the clinical aspect of her thesis at the hospital. Although their relationship and sessions have a rocky start, he slowly begins to open up to her about his disease and how it is affecting him. After she gives him a lift home in her car after one of his chemo sessions, the two develop a rapport both in and outside of their sessions, which begins to blur the lines of both their doctorpatient relationship and connection as friends. She helps Adam understand his mothers situation as well, that even though he is the cancer patient the loved ones feel just as much stress watching s

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