Country: USA
Year: 2011
Duration: 99'
27-year-old Adam has a very artistic girlfriend and a good job at a radio station. But his life is turned upside down when he is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. The young man finds himself dealing with the contradictions generated by his health and with the illogical reactions of his friends and family: Kyle, who uses his friend’s illness to hook up with girls; his mother, who is engulfed by her own fears and thus loses sight of her son’s needs; Rachael, who tries not to think about her boyfriend’s condition by throwing herself into a frenetic social life; and Katherine, his novice psychotherapist. “The actors are driving the story. I have a tendency to want to do cool stuff with the camera, but I had to tone down my visual approach. That’s not to say that there isn’t some cool visual stuff, but the movie is more about the performances and letting the actors find the truth in the situation. The fact that Will wrote an amazingly funny and sincere script about illness was a great asset to me.”
Biography
film director
Jonathan Levine
Jonathan Levine (New York, NY, USA, 1976), after graduating in Art-Semiotics from Brown University, worked as a personal assistant to Paul Schrader. In 2002, he moved to Los Angeles to study directing at the American Film Institute Conservatory, where his graduating film, Shards (2004), was presented at many festivals and won the award for best short film at the American Black Film Festival. His first feature-length film, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), participated at the Toronto Film Festival, while his second, The Wackness (2008), won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival and at the LA Film Festival, besides being nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for best screenplay.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Shards (cm, 2004), Love Bytes (cm, doc., 2005), All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2005), Fa’ la cosa sbagliata - The Wackness (2008), How to Make It in America (ep. Good Vintage, cm, tv, 2010), 50/50 (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Jonathan Levine
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Will Reiser
fotografia/cinematography
Terry Stacey
montaggio/film editing
Zene Baker
scenografia/production design
Annie Spitz
costumi/costume design
Carla Hetland
musica/music
Michael Giacchino
suono/sound
Robert Jackson
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Adam), Seth Rogen (Kyle), Anna Kendrick (Katherine), Bryce Dallas Howard (Rachael), Anjelica Huston (Diane), Serge Houde (Richard), Andrew Airlie (il dottor/Dr Ross), Matt Frewer (Mitch), Philip Baker Hall (Alan)
produttori/producers
Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen, Ben Karlin
produzione/production
coproduttori/coproducers
Nicole Brown, Kelli Konop, Tendo Nagenda
distribuzione/distribution
Eagle Pictures
vendita all’estero/world sales
Lionsgate International
TFF
prizes
