Cancer, too, can change the way you look at things, and also how friends and family look at you, as is seen Jonathan Levine's 50/50 (September 30). Those are the odds of survival given to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 27-year-old clean-living, happy-go-lucky guy after he's diagnosed with a rare spinal malignancy. The odds are much better that this black comedy from the director of The Wackness, co-starring Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick, might be the funniest, grimmest movie of the year.
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