We went to see the new movie, "Love and Other Drugs." I really didn't know what to expect because the previews show it as a sexy comedy, interviews with the actors on the talk shows made it sound like everyone is naked the whole movie (close!) or it was about the pharmaceutical industry. It is all the above except......
Like real life many of us when we were young did not think clearly, we had hormone problems! This movie starts out like most Hollywood stories: two good looking people in lust (graphic R-rated lust). Add to this that the Jake Gyllenhaal character is a pharmaceutical rep who can't please his family since he dropped out of medical school and the Anne Hathaway character does not want to have a relationship with anyone because she has early onset Parkinson's disease.
Like life the first part of the story is fun, sexy and fast. Like life the second half of the movie is about the changes in life that make people get serious. It is very well acted. You can see Hathaway change from a sexy carefree person to a person with very real problems. These two actors (who played husband and wife in "Brokeback Mountain) have a great supporting cast and great chemistry.
This movie is a hard "R" for profanity, nudity and sex. Use your own judgement. Don't blame me, its my job.
I give this movie ***stars.
2010 Movie #51
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