Ref: Mulhern
#13 50/50
This was one in a series of cancer-related programs we began watching (along with Beginners and Breaking Bad) over the span of a weekend. You'd think all of that intense emotion would have us spiraling into deep depression, but, quite to the contrary, the humorous and touching story told in 50/50 didn't let us get too low.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt was marvelous in this role - stoic, amusing, emotional, raw, human. I was especially moved by the scene at the end of the film *spoiler alert* when he's preparing to go into surgery and saying goodbye to his parents. Seth Rogen was great in the bumbling buddy role that proves to have more depth than meets the eye. Anjelica Huston and Serge Houde deserved special recognition for their affecting portrayals of the mother devoted to caring for the men in her life and the father who, despite a slow disappearance into dementia, still can be partly present for his son.
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