Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen
“50 / 50” My rating: B+ (Opening wide Sept. 30)
99 minutes | MPAA rating: R
It’s one thing to make a raunchy comedy.
It’s another to tell a serious story about someone coping with a life-threatening disease.
But in a category all by itself is the ability to put those two seemingly contradictory genres together so that they complement each other rather than cancelling each other.
That’s the small miracle of “50/50,” based on screenwriter Will Reiser’s own bout with cancer.
