50/50

Last week I attended a preview screening of the movie 50/50 at Vue Cinema, Festival Place, Basingstoke.

The movie is about Adam Lerner, a 25 year old man who has a simple life with a beautiful girlfriend and works for a radio station with his best friend who complicates his life in humorous ways.

Adam gets diagnosed with a rare type of cancer, and the movie shows how he and the people around hime deal with what is happening....he tells his friend, and he uses it it pick up girls (although he hides how scared he is for his friend), his girlfriend uses this as a way out of the relationship, and his mom wants to pretty much smother him (despite having her hands full with Adam's dad suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Adam starts seeing a cute student doctor to help him with the psychological effects of the chemotherapy he undertakes....and they start falling for each other.

The movie, despite the sad circumstances is quite feel good...although there are the roller-coaster ups and downs everything does turn out fairly well in the end.

50/50 is rated 15 and in UK cinemas now.