Adam Lerner is a 27-year-old public radio journalist in Seattle with girlfriend and artist Rachael, of whom best friend and co-worker Kyle disapproves. While Kyle is arrogant and crude, Adam is mild-mannered and shy.50/50 2011 Movie Download.
After experiencing strong pains in his back, Adam is diagnosed with schwannoma neurofibrosarcoma, a malignant tumor in his spine, and must undergo chemotherapy. He sees on the Internet that the survival rate for his diagnosis is 50/50. After Adam reveals this, his mother Diane, who nurses her Alzheimer’s-stricken husband Richard, offers to care for him. Adam declines as Rachael has already promised to.At one of his treatments, Adam meets Mitch and Alan, two older cancer patients also undergoing chemo, and they become friends. Rachael is uncomfortable during his treatments and is often late picking him up. She also gets him a retired racing greyhound as a pet, named Skeletor. Throughout Adam’s struggle, Kyle attempts to maintain his morale, helping Adam shave his head and openly using his illness to pick up women.50/50 2011 Movie Download.
While on a date, Kyle sees Rachael with another man at a gallery and takes a photo, later forcing her to confess her infidelity by showing it to Adam, who breaks up with her. He follows Kyle’s suggestion, and they use his illness to pick up two women at a bar.Meanwhile, Adam is being treated by a young, inexperienced therapist, Katherine McKay, a PhD candidate doing the clinical aspect of her thesis at the hospital. While their relationship and sessions begin unevenly, he slowly begins to open up. After driving him home after a chemo session, they develop a rapport, blurring their professional and personal relationship. She helps Adam understand his mother’s situation: loved ones can feel just as much stress as the patient, which helps Adam repair the rift between him and his mother.