Catcher in the MRI

Levine and the scriptwriter, Will Reiser (who based the story in part on his own experience as a cancer patient), labor mightily to find both the drama and the comedy in Adam?s awful plight, with a success rate that?s slightly greater than the ratio of the film?s title. Scene by scene, 50/50 can be both amusing and moving, with the tightly wound Gordon-Levitt and the boundaryless Rogen forming an oddly complementary pair. But as a whole the movie never quite coheres, seeming to skitter away at the last minute from both full-body laughter and full-body sobs. ?Did you see Terms of Endearment?? Adam asks his mother moments before he tells her he has cancer. The line gets a laugh because, presumably, of the distance between that movie?s Hollywood vision of a family brought closer by cancer and this movie?s rawer, realer version. But the sprawling, occasionally operatic Terms of Endearment felt more honest than this cautious and tidy film.

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