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Anjelica Huston and Philip Baker Hall Diagnosed with ‘Cancer’

With principle set pieces of the dramedy already secured in Rogen, McAvoy, Kendrick and Dallas Howard, Variety reports that we now we have vets Anjelica Huston and Philip Baker Hall filling out the secondary roles in Jonathan Levine’s (please don’t re-title it) I’m With Cancer.

With principle set pieces of the dramedy already secured in Rogen, McAvoy, Kendrick and Dallas Howard, Variety reports that we now we have vets Anjelica Huston and Philip Baker Hall filling out the secondary roles in Jonathan Levine’s (please don’t re-title it) I’m With Cancer. Having read the screenplay, I’m seeing Huston playing one more mother role to McAvoy’s Adam character, and in all logic, I see Hall in the white lab coat role — as the deliverer of bad news.

A 2008 BlackList mentioned screenplay, and a Top 100 Most Anticipated film for 2010 on this site, based on the autobiographical spec written by Reiser, this is his personal account of his struggle to beat cancer, with the story centering on a 25-year-old (McAvoy) who finds out he has the disease. Anna Kendrick will play a psychologist assigned to a young man who learns he has cancer.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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