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• Summit Entertainment
• In theaters September 30

Cancer and comedy isn’t exactly a chocolate/peanut butter situation, but this labor of love from Seth Rogen and his longtime writing/producing partner Evan Goldberg is genuinely funny and affecting in a way most dramedies shoot for and miss. Rogen and Goldberg’s friend Will Reiser wrote the film about his own experiences as a cancer patient in his 20′s, and the film perfectly nails the gallows humor of a person unexpectedly facing their own mortality and being powerless to do anything about it. The movie wouldn’t work without a great lead, though, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives a terrific everyman performance as a good dude who the world would really miss. Bonus points for Anjelica Huston in her best role in ages, giving depth and dimension to the wacky overbearing mom part we’ve seen a billion times before, and Anna Kendrick staking her claim as the best adorable nerd in the business.