Sure, this has 99 problems but a bitch ain't one....

Rating: 9/10 (29 November 2011)

50/50 is about the grief going through the process of having cancer. You're fine at first and then all of a sudden, you're not. Adam is a perfect citizen. He doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, and he even recycles yet he finds himself on the wrong side of cancer. He finds out that he has a rare kind of spinal cancer and his world is turned around just like that.
He starts seeing a shrink, which doesn't really help. He has a mother, whose husband has Alzheimer's so all she wants to do is smother him with love when he tells her he has cancer. He has a girlfriend who already didn't want to be with him and to top that off that he has cancer she eventually cheats on him. He has a best friend who helps him realize what a bitch his girlfriend has been to him.
At first, he's fine with the whole cancer, but then it starts to kill him when he looks it up on the internet that he only has a 50/50 chance of survival.
I would recommend this to everyone. There is comedy throughout but it is definitely not a comedy. It's a drama about dealing with cancer, and the best part about this movie is that it's based on a true story about when Will Reiser had cancer.