Monday 26 November 2012

Love And Other Drugs (2010) 8/10

Starring : Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad
Director : Edward Zwick
Running Time : 113 mins

Pharmaceutical salesman Jamie Randall (Gyllenhaal) will stop at nothing to get a sale, even going as far as paying a doctor so that he can sit in on his consultations, so when Parkinson’s patient Maggie Murdock (Hathaway) walks into his life he takes the opportunity to get to know her as a way in with the various doctors she’s been consulting. It isn’t long before the two fall for each other, but can Jamie manage to focus on love and his career as he is given a hot tip about new wonder drug Viagra?

I was expecting this to be yet another silly sex comedy, but it is in fact a touching look at illness and relationships and how the two can cause major problems for couples. Gyllenhaal and Hathaway have great chemistry on screen and their characters are vibrant and real in every scene. Sadly Josh Gad’s comic relief character was a little uninspired and fell flat at times.

You’ll like this if you liked : No Strings Attached



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