Laughing when confronted with Dying: '50/50' along with other Terminal Illness Movies That Buck Convention

You'd think a film in regards to a youthful guy fighting a terminal disease will be a huge downer -- a la 'Dying Young' -- but '50/50' is not your average death's door tearjerker. The funny new flick offers lots of laughs together with the tender moments, and handles to locate humor within an incredibly depressing situation. Frederick Gordon-Levitt stars as Adam, a 27-year-old radio producer identified having a rare type of cancer which has a 50/50 survival rate. (Hence the title.) His closest friend Kyle (Seth Rogen) becomes Adam's rock, driving him to doctor's visits and annoying him with nights around town. Obviously, this is not the very first time Rogen has performed a personality taking care of someone facing a terminal disease. Remember 'Funny People'? Rogen dutifully hidden in Adam Sandler's ailing character each evening. However I digress. To '50/50.' It's refreshing to determine a 'terminal illness' movie that is not some facts about the doting lady nursing the individual to health (cough, cough, 'Dying Young'), and ultimately leading right into a sappy, sappy, sad, sappy love story. In the end, it's pretty simple for this specific genre to obtain schmaltzy. (Cough, cough, 'A Walk to consider.A) Sure: 'Terms of Endearment' is a superb movie, but everything about this appears carefully calculated to extract tears. If you are searching for something a bit more subversive with lots of inappropriate dying-related jokes, you might want to try one of these simple rather. Behold, a listing of my five favorite movies about people fighting terminal illness. (Sorry, 'Last Holiday.' You did not result in the cut. As I such as the premise of the Full Latifah laugh-riot, the flick itself falls very, very short. And despite the fact that I give 'The Bucket List' credit for making popular the saying and dealing with dying inside a brand new way, watching Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman skydiving did not quite make my top-5.) 'The Royal Tenenbaums.' Royal's stomach cancer might not be real, however i would still reason that this fits the 'terminal illness' genre due to how his alleged illness causes everybody around him to behave. Royal's fake cancer wins him a place in the household home, and garners attention from his estranged family. Sure, he will get caught. But he got in certain much-needed face time with your family as the trick survived. &ampampampampampampampltcenter&ampampampampampampampgt 'Igby Goes Lower.' I recognize it might be a little of the spoiler to show who comes lower using the terminal illness within this flick, and so i will not. I'll state that it made my list due to its refreshingly cynical method of dying. Lots of movies present the dying person as some kind of perfect angel. Not that one. (Bonuses for featuring Bill Pullman AND Shaun Goldblum. Extra bonuses for seeing Kieran Culkin yell 'Sookie!!' to Claire Danes years before Bill and Eric managed to get extremely popular on 'True Bloodstream.') &ampampampampampampltcenter&ampampampampampampgt 'Beaches.' OK, it is a little schmaltzy. But Bette Midler saves 'Beaches' from being too syrupy sweet. Her dying Best friend of 3 decades, Hillary, was type of a wealthy bitch sometimes, but ultimately their friendship could endure unfaithfulness, jealousy or even a bizarre love triangular. The Divine One reaches share Hillary's last moments together with her by the pool. Like '50/50,' this can be a touching story about friendship. Plus, it is the flick that introduced us 'The Wind Beneath My Wings.' &ampampampampampltcenter&ampampampampampgt 'Moulin Rouge.' It figures Satine (Nicole Kidman) would satisfy the guy of her dreams (Ewan McGregor) right before falling ill with TB! (That old-timey disease is a great indication this super-stylized movie is a real period piece.) Despite the fact that you will find lots of professions of great love, the singing, dancing and John Leguizamo keep 'Moulin Rouge' from being yet another tragic love story. &ampampampampltcenter&ampampampampgt 'My Existence Without Me.' As though being identified having a terminal illness in 2009 . wasn't bad enough, Ann (Sarah Polley) also offers a husband (Scott Speedman) and 2 kids. Damn! She embarks by herself bucket-listy journey, including some steamy encounters with Mark Ruffalo. Again, that one scores points for eschewing the entire dying-person-can-do-no-wrong trap. &ampampampltcenter&ampampampgt ('50/50' image thanks to Summit Entertainment)