Love and Other Drugs
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway and Judy Greer
Year: 2010
Watched: 10/1/11
What the Fudge is it?
Sexy Jake sells drugs to people using his sexy charm. He likes to get around and doesn't settle down with the ladies. Anne Hathaway is sick but still sexy and uses alot of medication, she doesn't like to get too attached to people. The two sexy mofos meet and all kinds of sexiness happens.
What I thought....
Haha you know what is amazing? After writing the review i went onto imdb to get some links to the director and actors pages and i read the synopsis from 20th century fox. Nearly spat my cordial everywhere. Here is it:
"Maggie (Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love."
I even read it in that cheesy voice....glad i found that because it kind of makes me feel better about the next bit i wrote.
I saw the trailer for this and wasn't too sure, bride wars had burnt me! i had lost my trust in chick flicks.....but in all honesty you know what? i love a good chick flick! come from many many years of seeing terrible freddy jr. films. I have a fantastic ability to switch off and become more camp and feminine for 2 hours at a time.
So the trailer made this look a little like a run of the mill chick flick with Chesty Jake and Anne Hateclothes. Its a total mis advertisement. What i went to see instead was a weird hybrid of a film. Part making comments on the nature of the pharmaceutical business, part sexy antics with Jake and Anne and part depressing story about the idea of being alone through choice and all kinds of dark things that were not shown to be in the advert!
Alot of the start of the film is spent showing the development of Chesty Jakes character from HiFi sales man to flogging anti depressants to doctors. We are shown a slightly Thank you for smoking character who does a job which is totally bankrupt. This guy is swine and how does he do it? through charm and sex appeal. The character of Chesty Jake reminded me a lot of Aaron Eckhart (prob spelt wrong) from Thank you for Smoking mixed with Silver Fox George Clooney from up in the air. Both of which i thought were great films and great characters.
Hathway is great playing the free spirited (hate that term) hottie. She manages to flip from sexy and strong to venruable and more or less dying (im not spoiling anything here).
The film has a weird pace to it and is pulling in loads of different directions. One one side we have a traditional rom com about a couple meeting and getting it on despite their life style choices and personalities objecting to it. Then we have a commentary on the nature of medicine sales and representatives in america. Then in the final third we have a pretty emotional look at the sacrafices people make to care for their loved ones with a long term illness. It shouldn't have worked and for alot of people im guessing it didn't! but for me it definitely did. I bought the rom com cheesy shite with all the fantastic nakedness from Jake and Anne (seriously these two have the most fantastic looking sex since 9 1/2 weeks). I loved the look into the life of a medical rep more or less deciding people futures all for money, their relationships with doctors and just how impersonal and seedy it all is. And......i welcomed the more serious and to be honest faily depressing final act.
Overall
Funny is alot of parts with a weird darker tone towards the end of the film. The bits of cheesiness mostly worked (just about) for me but everything else definitely did. I could watch Chesty Jake and Anne HateClothes make love all day long. A really nice change from all out shite comedies and over the top point making films. Great!!! just like Annes Cans!
4/5
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