I don’t know why this connected with me, it just did. It’s a funny comedy-drama about cancer, and I like how it’s played very realistically, not full of melodrama, and is often more about the day to day average life of a person with cancer, dealing with frustrations and finding humor when they can to cope with it. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is great in this film, he just captures a lot of little nuances in his performance, and makes him feel more like a person you would know, he has a nice warmth to him. I really liked Seth Rogen as his dudebro best friend with a lot of heart and love for him beneath his pot and sex jokes. Angelica Huston is fantastic as his shut-out mother struggling with seeing her son in pain, and Anna Kendrick was really fun and charming as his awkward therapist in-training, trying way too hard to show empathy through scripted maneuvers.
I even really like the Seattle setting, it’s not often you see movies set in the PNW, so it was a nice change of pace. This is just a really solid movie all around.
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