The characters and dialogue in "50/50" are so cool and hip and accessible, the movie almost succeeds in making us forget we've seen this story a dozen times before. It's the tale of a young guy who comes down with a very scary form of cancer — so scary, even other cancer patients have never heard of it. As one fellow patient advises, the more syllables a disease has, the worse it is.
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The characters and dialogue in "50/50" are so cool and hip and accessible, the movie almost succeeds in making us forget we've seen this story a dozen times before. It's the tale of a young guy who comes down with a very scary form of cancer — so scary, even other cancer patients have never heard of it. As one fellow patient advises, the more syllables a disease has, the worse it is.