Movie #358 "Love and Other Drugs" is an Ed Zwick film, and I've been a Zwick fan for a long time, so I had to see this one. I liked it but not as much as I thought I would. The characters are winning enough, but the opening 1/2 of the film (or more) is really force fed to the audience ---- everyone comes on too strong ---- a little too cutesy, a little too noisy, a little too much for someone like me who wants honesty ---------perhaps, that was done on purpose because most everyone is putting everyone on, and the world Jamie travels in (selling drugs legally) isn't too honest with its products, either. There's lots of sex and drugs in the film (which is really different for Zwick), but it didn't seem gratuitous because the film's focus is on the building of a relationship, and in this day and age, well, things have changed, and since their relationship starts out as just sex, you can see why the film uses it quite a bit. Anne Hathaway is so good, she is able to take Jake G. with her beyond the lines in many scenes, which is good because the script has some problems. However, I DO recommend it for its risktaking -------let's face it, romance films have very little variety, but this one seems on speed ---- the tempo is different, and so I valued that the director was trying to do something different here.
Average rating: 3.64
I give it 4 stars
Love and Other Drugs
(2010) R
Pharmaceutical representative Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) becomes a player in the big game of male-performance-enhancement-drug sales and, along the way, finds unexpected romance with a woman (Anne Hathaway) suffering from Parkinson's disease. Based on the real-life Jamie Reidy's memoir, Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman, this satirical look inside the culture of Big Pharm is directed by Edward Zwick.
Genre:Romantic Dramas, Romantic Comedies, Dramas Based on Real Life
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