Struggling with writers block, he instead turned in a script about himself – Charlie Kaufman – trying to adapt Orlean’s book all while fighting with a twin brother he doesn’t actually have in real life. Charlie Kaufman, fresh off the success of Being John Malkovich, was hired to adapt the Susan Orlean novel The Orchid Thief. is almost as entertaining as the film itself. This is a true “dramedy” in every sense of the word, and it’s tenderly captured by versatile director Jonathan Levine, whose credits range from Warm Bodies to Long Shot.Ĭast: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, and Tilda Swinton Seth Rogen plays his best friend, Anna Kendrick plays the woman administering his chemotherapy, and Anjelica Huston plays his mother, and every member of the cast does a phenomenal job of walking a tonal tight rope: the film takes the cancer seriously, and is often heartbreaking but it also embraces humor that’s such a significant part of our daily lives, so that the story doesn’t ever become overly dramatic. The story is loosely based on screenwriter Will Reiser’s own battle with cancer, as Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a young public radio journalist who is diagnosed with a form of cancer from which there is a 50% survival rate. But if you wrote this one off for whatever reason, now’s a great time to catch up with a truly moving, warm, and funny film. Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Anjelica HustonĪffectionately dubbed “the cancer comedy,” 50/50 kind of flew under the radar when it hit theaters back in 2011.
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