History Film / FiftyFifty2011

''50/50'' is a 2011 comedy-drama film starring Creator/JosephGordonLevitt as a young man battling cancer.

''50/50'' is a 2011 comedic drama starring Creator/JosephGordonLevitt as a young man battling cancer.

%% * DeadpanSnarker: Adam

%% * AFriendInNeed: Kyle

%% * FriendVersusLover: Kyle hates Rachael, even gloating while she admits cheating on Adam.

* YourCheatingHeart: While Adam goes through chemotherapy, his girlfriend, Rachael, has a one-night stand with an artist from her gallery show. His friend Kyle sees them kiss and snaps a quick photo as evidence.

* MyBelovedSmother: Anjelica Huston's character. She admits to Katherine that she smothers him because she loves him.

50/50 is a 2011 comedic drama starring Creator/JosephGordonLevitt as a young man battling cancer.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Alan and Mitch, the other two cancer patients that Adam befriends in chemo [[spoiler: until Mitch dies]]
* TopicOfCancer: Adam has cancer. The film takes place over several months, and the chemo gradually makes the already thin Adam gaunt and pale, but not immediately.

* BookEnd: The film begins and ends with Kyle’s waiting for Adam in his car in front of Adam’s house.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Vancouver becomes Seattle. An ad for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotto_6/49 Lotto 6/49]], one of Canada's national lotteries, is seen, shattering the illusion for those who know. The film's opening 2 minutes contain shots of the Lionsgate Bridge, Vancouver Lookout, [[http://www.vfs.com/ VFS]], and Stanley Park. Amusingly, one of the things Adam regrets before his life-threatening surgery is that he's "never been to Canada."

* {{Adorkable}}: Katherine, who's very sweet but still very new at her job. It also helps that she's played by Creator/AnnaKendrick.
* AnnoyingPatient: Subverted it on the chemo side, as Adam goes along with the physical treatment without question or complaint. Played straight on the psychological side, as his stoic, withdrawn anger makes therapy difficult throughout the film.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Adam neglects to shave off his eyebrows, which chemotherapy ''also'' causes to fall out. To be fair, this oversight is so common that very few people would ever notice and point it out to him.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: When the aspect ratio briefly changes while destroying the painting.

* CharacterTics: Adam's nail-biting.
* DeadpanSnarker: Adam

* AFriendInNeed: Kyle is an exemplar of this trope.

* FriendVersusLover: Kyle hates Rachael, even gloating while she admits cheating on Adam.
* HospitalGurneyScene: Obviously used as Adam is taken off to his surgery near the end of the film.
* HospitalHottie: Katherine qualifies as one of these.
* IGotYouADrawer

* LethalDiagnosis: Averted. The film takes place over several months, and the chemo gradually makes the already thin Adam gaunt and pale, but not immediately.
* MamaBear: Angelica Houston goes into this mode, both to try to care for Adam and to try to get him to open up to her.
* ManipulativeBitch: Rachael can be seen as one of these, trying to manipulate Adam into getting back together with her so that she doesn't feel guilty about cheating on a cancer patient.

* ShooOutTheClowns: Both played straight and averted. Kyle is not present during the more somber moments of the film until the scenes leading up to Adam's surgery.
* SirSwearsALot: Kyle.

* StonerFlick: Given the amount of weed Adam eats and smokes, the movie almost qualifies for this, particularly as Kyle does most of the smoking!
* StrawMisogynist: Kyle has shades of this, although his objectification problems are PlayedForLaughs , mostly.

* WatchItStoned: Played straight. During his first session of chemo, Adam's fellow cancer sufferers pass him a tray of pot macaroons.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Alan, the other chemo patient, drops out of the film after the funeral scene. Adam stops going to chemo, so we never find out what happened to him.
** A deleted scene reveals that he's heading down to UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} to move in with his daughter. But before he departs, he leaves Adam a bag filled with every tie he's ever worn.