50/50

50/50 (2011) starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard. Twenty-seven-year-old Adam (Gordon-Levitt) is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, and he and his friend Kyle (Rogen) struggle to find ways to deal with it. Adam's girlfriend (Howard) cheats on him, and his therapist (Kendrick) may be falling for him. The movie is based on real life (one of the writers had survived cancer), and it has a real-life feel to it. Adam meets his cancer with humor, and later with frustration and anger. The film is about as close to a comedy about cancer as you can get, but it still takes the disease, and its victims, seriously. The DVD offers English subtitles for the hearing-impaired, but no closed captions. Grade: B