Love and Other Drugs (2010)

This was not the film I expected at all. For some reason I expected Anne Hathaway's character to be a crazy obsessive girlfriend, but I was quite off base here. The film was nominated for two Golden Globes: Jake Gyllenhaal for actor in a comedy, Anne Hathaway for actress in a comedy. Not Oscar worthy, but it was an entertaining movie, and the Globes are about entertainment, so I liked the nominations.

The film is actually about a pharmaceutical salesman and a girl with Parkinsons disease. Maybe an oversimplification, but when Jamie [Jake Gyllenhaal] starts working for Pfizer he shadows a doctor while trying to make the doctor his client. The doctor played by none other than Hank Azaria, the many voices of Springfield ["The Simpsons"]. Jamie is a womanizer and he falls in love with Maggie [Anne Hathaway], a woman not interested in a relationship given her medical condition.


I was surprised at the amount of nudity in this film, Hathaway and Gyllenhall show us a lot, and the movie poster is just a hint. Jake has been here before showing us a lot in Brokeback Mountain.This is, however, new territory for Hathaway, who had a minor role in Brokeback Mountain, but not like this. I thought the acting was pretty good, and I really liked the story. Some of the supporting cast was a little over the top, but overall it was a pretty good [racy] romantic comedy.


Vote: 7/10

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758752/

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