When I saw 'Love and Other Drugs' I was extremely impressed. This is a great script that has attained a balance between longevity of narrative, intricate human psychobabble and the right blend of Hollywood drama to make you feel you saw the right film.
Gyllenhaal (Jamie Randall) plays a testosterone-soaked womaniser who has never cared for more than himself. Beguiling the opportunity to make a quick buck, he mouths his way into drug company sales off the batt of audio and television retail success. Jamie becomes so good he assumes a one-on-one professional contact who has permitted him into several patient check-ups. Here Gyllanhaal's eye and charm first discovers Parkinson's sufferer Maggie Murdock (Anne hathaway).
A sexual and awkward relationship eventually transpires after much neuroses and fear (mostly on the part of Murdock-brilliantly played by Hathaway). We also see more nudity from both parties than has been shown in other ventures. but it's worth it.
'Love and Other Drugs' is a lengthy film whose narrative occurs during the era when viagra entered the market in the late 1990s. It portrays the American pharmaceutical industry as a profit-crazed commercial venture that remains absent-minded of patients' woes. Blending enough sympathy with sex, the script delves into the real world of sickness and competently makes statements-without going too far-about the American healthcare system (note Murdock's ventures to Canada to acquire affordable medications for fellow Parkinson's sufferers).
The portrayal of American pharmaceutical company careers as selfish and money-driven is the film's only downfall. Negative references to drug companies may be accurate, but I don't remember seeing majorettes in very short skirts skipping to hip hop at any credible drug company promotions in the real world.
'Love and Other Drugs' is a great film and I highly recommend you see it.
