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"Seth Rogen has insisted that his new cancer comedy 50/50 is just as funny as his other films.  50/50 was written by Will Reiser and centres on Kyle (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a 27-year-old diagnosed with the illness, a story based on Reiser&amp;#039;s real life. Rogen plays Adam, Kyle&amp;#039;s friend who helps him cope with the struggles surrounding his condition.  Talking to MTV News, Rogen said that while the film deals with a rather heavy issue, the approach is almost light-hearted and still &amp;quot;really, really funny&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;It is about something somewhat serious, but I really think it&amp;#039;s as funny as any of our movies. That&amp;#039;s what is really interesting about it to me. We&amp;#039;d always talk about how it&amp;#039;s not a creative challenge to take something depressing and make something depressing out of it,&amp;quot; he explained.  &amp;quot;To us, it was much more interesting to take something that&amp;#039;s inherently depressing and try to make something really, really funny out of it. To me, the movies that are about something you generally don&amp;#039;t want to watch but you keep watching for decades to come, the only reason you do that is because they&amp;#039;re funny.&amp;quot; Rogen went on to compare 50/50 to the cult classic Dr. Strangelove, adding: &amp;quot;No-one wants a movie about f**king nuclear war, but if it&amp;#039;s funny, you keep watching it. Tonally, that&amp;#039;s what we were trying to do.&amp;quot; Co-Star Bryce Dallas Howard has said that the film is &amp;quot;truthful&amp;quot; about the realities of cancer.  Watch the trailer for 50/50 below:   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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