(7 out of 10 **Hollygood**)
This movie rocked my world! I never thought that the drug industry would ever be depicted in such a sexy and promiscuous manner. So much damn sex... is the best description for this film. Honestly, I think Jake Gyllenhaal is a horrible actor in this type of movie; although October Sky was a great movie and made me cry when I was 10....
Anne Hathaway plays the role of a sick young lass who falls for Jake Gyllenhaal ( a newly employed Pfizer sales representative ). Hathaway's character has Parkinson's disease. She copes with her illness by sleeping around, leaving out any feelings with her encounters. Gyllenhaal is one of her lucky hookups but their relationship becomes more than just a "pity fuck"; The two opposites fall in love for what seems like all the right reasons, yet they begin to drift apart when Pfizer's career opportunities leave Hathaway in the rear-view. Eventually Gyllenhaal realizes that love is a rare oddity and his career opportunity could transfer into efforts in medical school and a future with his true lover.
The couple finally gets back together (of course they do... it's a chick flick for Christ's sake) and all is well. The plot of this film is undoubtedly perfect for those searching for a perfect date night film. It provides romanticism, realism, sex and a happy ending. However, this happy ending isn't as perfect as most love story endings... Gyllenhaal falls for Hathaway for the sole reason that he is in love with her as a person, not the fact that she has a degenerative and incurable disease.
I think that in our time, love is seen as something that occurs between two individuals where everything is perfect; and all that the future holds is a perfect life... and I guess divorce for the unfaithful lovers... but Love & Other Drugs provides a romantic outlook on life as we know it. All people are different; everyone has their own dose of craziness and no one is perfect, yet procuring a love story in something that seems like a horror story is really what makes this film unique.
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