LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS (2010)

 

‘Love and other drugs’ (2010)

Genre: Romance, drama, comedy  

Director: Edward Zwick

Writers: Charles Randolph (screenplay), Edward Zwick (screenplay)

Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway

My score 3/5

There are so many romantic movies coming out and I sometimes can’t really keep track of all. But the good thing is that almost all of them are purely the same. Boy meets girl, there is something unpleasant about their life before or after the starting of relationship, one of them finds out that to be too irritating and they break up and finally in the last 5 minutes they decide that they were born for each other and get back together. We assume that it’s the last stupid thing they did and lived happily ever after. And then the credits with some cool song! What is totally different from movie to movie is the cast and the characters.

‘Love and other drugs’ falls quite in the same formula. However there are one or two things which keeps it apart from the mundane date flicks and makes it actually watchable.

I actually don’t think I have to explain the plot. It’s a love story and you know what love stories are like (If your totally out of the movie scene hope you read the first paragraph of this review). What’s good about it is that it takes place in mid 90’s and it makes you remember some stuff. Just like some good old music and dance moves for example. And our guy Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal-Jar Head, Brokeback Mountain) is a salesman and is about get rich by selling Viagra. Which brings us to the peak of some scenes with our girl Maggie Murdock (Anne Hathaway-Alice in Wonderland, Devil Wears Prada)who is a hot sick girl who suffers from stage 1 Parkinson’s disease. When I mean hot girl it’s really the deal of the movie and beware this 112 mts has quite a lot devoted to bed play and skin show. 

…..Now where was I? Yes ok. I was at the cast. There seems to be some good chemistry between Jake and Anna. Which runs the story quite smoothly. The viewer feels like they actually exists. Jake was actually nominated for Golden Globes best actor in a motion picture (Musical or Comedy)  category for this role. So yes he is watch worthy.

Script is well written and intelligent, most of the time throws everything back at your when you least expect it. There is love, fun, sex and pain disbursed throughout.

There are lot of feelings and touching dialogues in ‘Love and other drugs’.  Some of them are quite close to heart and might bring you a tear or two. And what can you really expect from a love story without tears?

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