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Love & Other Drugs
MacGuffin:
Trailer here.
Release Date: November 24th, 2010 (wide)
Starring: Hank Azaria, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Josh Gad, Judy Greer
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Premise: A humorous expose of the highly competitive and cutthroat world of pharmaceuticals. An ambitious college grad schmoozes doctors, nurses, hospitals and begins a relationship with a woman suffering from Parkinson's, all while competing against other salesmen who trying to push their brand of drugs.
Stefen:
*picture of some suit*(xixax, add your own) -- "The worst parts of Brokeback Mountain? Let's put them in a rom-com."
squints:
stefen you just reminded me to do a google image search for anne hathaway's awesome rack from brokeback...thank you
Stefen:
I don't even remember posting that. But you're welcome. It is glorious.
Alexandro:
This was way better than I expected it to be.
Save from a couple of really horrible musical cues near the end, it's a smart and actually funny comedy about two emotionally crippled fuck ups in love that was unjustly marketed as any other rom com around.
Anne Hathaway has been pretty great in everything I've seen her and this is no exception; her character is at the same time emotionally unstable, physically sick, perceptive, cynical and vulnerable; this could haven played safe easily and she juggles all those facets and more and makes it work. "Sex" as a subject is dealt with frankness and it shows in the scenes also, which range from truly sexy to uncomfortable.
I've pretty much hated every single Edward Zwick film since Legends of the Fall but I gotta say he really surprised me with this. The mood changes within the film (from raunchy jokes to romance to genuine emotion) were handled with a lot of control and expertise.
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