50/50 might be
one of the smartest films about living with cancer that I’ve seen. That it’s a
comedy makes it all the more interesting to me. It’s not a cancer comedy the
way The Bucket List is, with two old
geezers having adventures that the conditions of their bodies would never
permit in real life. 50/50, directed
by Jonathan Levine from a script by real-life cancer survivor Will Reiser, is
about a man in his late-20s who is diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer
and how he faces what could be his last days on earth.
