Movie Trivia for the movie 50/50
Memorable Movie Quotes
Adam: See, but… that’s bullshit. That’s what everyone has been telling me since the beginning. “Oh, you’re gonna be okay,” and “Oh, everything’s fine,” and like, it’s not… It makes it worse… that no one will just come out and say it. Like, “hey man, you’re gonna die.”
Trivia
Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is based on screenwriter Will Reiser, who was diagnosed with cancer, and later recovered. Seth Rogen (Kyle) helped Reiser cope with his disease, and convinced him to write a screenplay during their early twenties together.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt actually shaved his head during filming. He and Seth Rogen were improvising in character while the cameras kept rolling, since the scene was not in the script.
Seth Rogen’s wife, Lauren, plays Bodie, the woman walking the bulldog that Adam and Kyle speak with while walking Skeletor.
When Adam is listing things he has never done, one of them is that he has never visited Canada. That scene, as well as the majority of the rest of the movie, was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Goofs
When Adam is running in Seattle at the beginning of the film, the Lion’s Gate Bridge in Vancouver, BC is seen in the background.
Road signs, including One Way and Do Not Enter, have no text as they are Canadian road signs. The film is set in Seattle, Washington, USA.
When Adam is in Dr. Ross’ office with his mother and father, his mother inspects a diploma from “Washington State University Medical School”. Washington State University does not have a medical school.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget: $8,000,000
Gross: $35,014,192
Filming Locations
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (location)
605 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1W7, Canada