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September 30, 2011
At the Movies: ‘50/50’ one of the year’s best films
By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Critic
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| 50/50 |
 Director: Jonathan Levine Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anjelica Huston, Seth Rogen, Bryce Dallas Howard Rating: R Running time: 100 minutes. |
It could have been agonizingly mawkish: the story of a young man with everything ahead of him who learns he has a rare form of spinal cancer, one that he only has a 50-percent chance of surviving. The premise alone sounds like an insufferable drag, an example of eat-your-vegetables cinema, regardless of the catharsis that might result.
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