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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 40 Pairs of Chicago Passes to ‘50/50’ With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen
CHICAGO – In our latest comedy/drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “50/50” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick!
“50/50” also stars Anjelica Huston, Bryce Dallas Howard, Marie Avgeropoulos, Julia Benson, Lauren Miller, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Philip Baker Hall, Will Reiser, Laura Bertram, Sugar Lyn Beard, Luisa D’Oliveira and Andrew Airlie from director Jonathan Levine and writer Will Reiser.
The film opens on Sept. 30, 2011. To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “50/50” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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Here is the plot description for “50/50”:
Inspired by personal experiences, “50/50” is an original story about friendship, love, survival and finding humor in unlikely places. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star as best friends whose lives are changed by a cancer diagnosis. Rogen also serves as producer along with Evan Goldberg and Ben Karlin. Jonathan Levine directs from a script by Will Reiser.
“We worked with Will on ‘Da Ali G Show’ and it was shortly after that we learned he was sick.” Rogen recalls. “As shocking, sad, confusing and generally screwed up as it was, we couldn’t ignore that – because we were so ill-equipped to deal with the situation – funny things kept happening. Will got better, and when he did, we thought the best way to pull something good out of the situation was to get him to write a screenplay.”
Rogen added: “Ideally we wanted to make a film that would be as funny, sad and hopefully as honest as the experience we went through. As soon as the script was completed, it quickly became a passion project for all of us. It helped us come to terms with Will’s struggle as well as our own experiences.”
“50/50” is the story of a guy’s transformative and, yes, sometimes funny journey to health. “50/50” draws its emotional core from Will Reiser’s own experience with cancer. The film reminds us that friendship and love – no matter what bizarre turns they take – are the greatest healers.
The movie trailer for “50/50” can be watched now below.
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By ADAM FENDELMAN |
Cancer
By killing people I know.
Cancer
Far too frequently. We are living through another family member right now. It is a scary disease.
Cancer
Far too frequently. We are living through another family member right now. It is a scary disease.
How has cancer touched your life or the life of someone you know
I went to UK to study with a professor at University of Manchester. After my first term, he was diagnosed with Leukemia and died six months later. While, I could not stay there and moved to New York. I can not forget his extraordinary kindness to me. He trusted me and accepted me. Trust to me is a sacred word and always remind me of him.
Cancer
Breast cancer has taken my mother and older sister.
Howhaving had Cancer has affected my life
As a 20 year bladder cancer survivor (I was 40 years upon diagnosis)I view life through a lens of happiness that I can celebrate each and every day! Life takes on new meaning when you know that you have been given a second chance for life! I celebrate each day!
it has not affected me
it has not affected me directly, thank God
Unfortunately, it runs in the family...
Even with early screenings, this disease is like a dormant viper - waiting to strike when all seems serene.
Has Cancer crossed my path?
I have had numerous family members throughout my life time who have been diagnosed with various forms of cancer which eventually took their lives. In addition, within the last 10 years, I have also encountered close friends and their immediate family members who have had drastic lifestyle changes due to being diagnosed with this deadly disease, Even though some have survived, the quality of their livew have been drastically diminished and they are living a slow death. Let’s team up and get the drug companies and doctors to not collaborate on the research and development and cure this once and for all.
Cancer
It always seems to take the best, doesn’t it?