Right off the bat i will say that i am a fan of Seth Rogen’s acting, his sense of humor and in general how his comedies are, so there will probably be some form of an bias here, so i wanted to immediately start this post with letting that detail out.
The movie is based off Will Reiser’s personal experience with cancer, Will being the personal close friend of Seth Rogen who has written plenty of screenplays for his movies and wrote the screenplay for this movie as well, it doesn’t have himself and Rogen as their real life counterparts, but rather smalltime radio worker.
Joseph-Gordon Levitt stars as Adam Lerner, who is Will Reiser more or less and Seth Rogen plays as his good friend Kyle, the two of them work on a radio station, Adam’s the shy honest good man who doesn’t have a car license because he’s afraid of getting killed during driving while Kyle’s the pot headed I wanna nail some girls goofy guy, so yeah Seth Rogen is playing himself, but what is probably want his wants wanted to see anyhow, right?
The news on the cancer hit at the very start of the movie and this movie is pretty much the process of trying to heal yourself and make sure you can personally get thru this kind of an experience, as the movie title states, Adam has about 50% chances of surviving. You see his overly worried mother (Anjelica Huston) who also has to take care of her Alzheimer’s suffering husband Richard Lesner (Serge Houde) while having difficulties with his current girlfriend Rachel (Bryce Hallas Howard) while going to different club parties with his buddy boy Kyle and using the advantage of his cancer to get Kyle laid.
Adam also visits his psychiatrist McKay (Anna Kendrick) going thru the daily process, how to express your emotions, how to deal with your life right now, how to co-operate and so forth. They become good friends during the progress of the movie and practically help each other out from time to time.
It’s hard to further talk about the movie without spilling all the details, as there are some pretty hilarious supporting characters that Adam gets to meet alongside how the movie ends, I will say the surgery process is very heart touching and this random woman next to me even cried, and why shouldn’t she? The movie gives us all the reason to care about the protagonists and the people around him, my favorite scene has to be when Adam finds out Kyle has been reading a book that deals about friends having cancer, and that was incredibly up lifting to see how much he truly cared for his best buddy, that he’d read a book to get some notes and advices, this whole movie is one big journey of the Lerner family and their friends.
With that said, I warmly recommend this drama comedy to everyone, it’s touching and warmly up lifting movie based.
I refused to wear it, and had Kane make me a cute adorable one. 
because I'm allowed to be a female dammit!
