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| Genres: | ComedyRoma |
| Starring: | Judy Greer, Nikki Deloach, Jill Clayburgh, Anne Hathaway, Gabriel Macht, Oliver Platt, Jake Gyllenhaal |
| Director(s): | Edward Zwick |
| Available Quality: | DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def |
| Country: | USA |
| Year: | 2010 |
| IMDB Rating: | 6.6 |
Maggie (Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who wont 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 Jamies evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug love.
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Visitor Reviews: (20)
george.schmidt 16 May 2012
More than a LOVE STORY meets JERRY MAGUIRE pitch; Jake & Anna make a dynamite couple
LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS (2010) **1/2 Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway,Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad, Gabriel Macht, Judy Greer, GeorgeSegal, Jill Clayburgh. Well-acted yet disjointed romantic dramedy withcocksure pharmaceutical salesman Gyllenhaal facing his biggestchallenge: free-spirited and equally callow artist Hathaway  andultimately falling in love with some consequences (she has first-stageParkinson's Disease). While Edward Zwick keeps the pace snappy asdirector his screenplay with Charles Randolph and longtime partnerMarshall Herskovitz  based on Jamie Reidy's book "Hard Sell: TheEvolution of a Viagra Salesman)  has its work cut out for it inattempting to be a breezy sex comedy and a disease of the week TV moviethat ultimately is cancelled out by the dynamic chemistry of itshandsome leads (and hot sex scenes) yet it is more than a LOVE STORYmeets JERRY MAGUIRE pitch; it's what one will sacrifice to be a betterperson; lesson learned indeed. Trivia note: sadly this is Clayburgh'slast film performance, which is more so since it's practically aglorified cameo as Gyllenhaal's WASPy mother.
15 May 2012
Better than thought...
I watched this after finally giving into the back-in-forth of whether or not I should. It was better than I thought. I think Gyllenhaal & Hathaway work really well together. I even teared up a few times.I had to giggle though through the entire beginning scene, where Jamie is working in an electronics store in 1996 selling his little heart out to potential customers. It totally reminded me of my college days working at Circuit City. In 96' I was a CSA( customer service) but most of my co-workers were friends who were sales associates trying to make money off commissions so they all had their hardsell speeches. It took me back and anyone that has ever worked in an electronics store will understand. ~
15 May 2012
A Great Way to Spend the Evening
I was surprised at how good this movie was. I expected it to be an easy way to spend the evening with a good chick flick. However, it was a whole lot more than that. Ann Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal were both stand-out actors in this movie. The story was a tear-jerker played to perfection. Jake plays a pharmaceutical rep on the fast track to administration. Ann plays an artist who is no longer able to do the work she once did because she has early onset Parkinson's disease. Jake is a lady's man and has never had a long-term (think days) relationship unless it was to benefit his job. Ann is intimacy-averse because of her prognosis. Somehow the two get together and there chemistry is hot, hot, hot. There relationship is a lot more than their chemistry, however, and they soon grow into an item. How they deal with this closeness is what makes the movie great. I highly recommend it both for its entertainment value and the message it gives.
15 May 2012
This movie made me mad
I don't have time to detail everything wrong with this movie. But, as someone who works in the pharma industry, I'll just say that the way Pfizer is portrayed in this film is completely false and insulting. The pharma industry is one of the most heavily regulated industries in the world. Many of the actions portrayed in this movie would have never been allowed in reality and would have resulted in heavy fines to the company, etc. I've read that Pfizer had absolutely nothing to do with the production of this movie. I'm frankly sick and tired of liberal Hollywood getting up on its holier-then-thou high horse with coporate America, making fun of successful indsutry, and some how trying to make corporate success seem criminal to the general public. Here's a clue...Hollywood actors and film companies make millions upon millions of dollars and are grossly overpaid. The only thing they offer to the general public is lame entertainment that in most cases (these days especially) is a complete waste of time. I have yet to see any of these holier-then-thou baffoons stand up and donate all their money and profit to the betterment of humanity. So please, spare us the attempt at making an industy you're clearly completely jealous of appear to be evil. It isn't. Get over it.
blerim2010 13 May 2012
Beautiful
Love and other drugs is an exceptional movie! Like many people saydon't judge a book by its cover. The same exception can be made forthis movie. I don't understand why the "critics" scored it so low, ifeel like the standards for movies has gotten so high that no one cancompare to them anymore. When is the last time you have seen a perfectscore from any critic? I'm not saying this movie is perfect anddeserves 10/10. I am just saying that it has a very underrated score of55, and it deserves a lot more credit then that. Maybe this isn't yourtype of movie, but for those who like the classic romance movie this isa must see. It is the type of movie you can sit through without takingyour eyes off the screen. It was remarkably done and the acting wasfantastic from both Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal, props to theboth of them. It was a very touching movie and both Anne and Jake soldtheir roles perfectly. Well done. 8/10.
JRlock 13 May 2012
Sweet and bitter, if you are fortunate enough.
I'm glad I decided to watch this film. To be perfectly candid, I readthat Anne Hathaway has a nude scene and have been curious to see moreof her since I watched "Get Smart". Given we all know that JakeGyllenhaal is a good actor, I was expecting the movie not to be toobad; I had not bothered to read the full movie summary/storylinebeforehand. What I was not expecting was to have a lump in my throat bythe end of the movie. The trailers/previews I saw were indicative of acomedy which of course is not this movie's real theme. Sure it's aromantic comedy so it has a comedic backdrop and it also has sexualcontent; it is not gratuitous sexual content and that is worth amention. The movie slowly, very slowly, but assuredly makes the pointso many other great romantic comedy make and that point is that lovehurts. The performances by Gyllenhaal and Hathaway were poignant,exactly when the time was right for that. The movie goes deep when ittackles the ugly truth that love hurts more when it is felt strongly byboth at a time when either one is facing the sure prospect of deathbefore a full life was lived. If I spoiled it for you, that may not besuch a bad thing.
10 May 2012
Kinda depressing. Not what I'd want to watch twice.
A handsome guy (Jake Gyllenhaal), who can pick up any girl just by snapping his fingers, apparently meets and falls for a less-than-truly attractive woman with an apparent caustic behavior problem. If true love is mysterious, then I guess it can also be cruel.Usually, I don't think much of Anne Hathaway as a girl to pursue for love (maybe just for sex only). But, she actually did fit the part of a woman with a deep rooted problem (Parkinson's). She's got a trashy look about her, so I would expect that a good looking guy like Jake Gyllenhaal could have easily pursued any other girl who would have had her act together more. Anne Hathaway was trying to push him away. So, I would have certainly taken her advice from the word "go", from the very first abrasive moment she threw at him. Especially after getting a "head's up" from a man who married a woman with Parkinson's disease. The man even told him that, if he had to do it all over again, he certainly wouldn't have. That would be all that I'd need to hear. Anyway, this movie is probably true to life about dealing with someone with Parkinson's Disease. But, as a young man, I would have tried to avoid starting a relationship with someone who obviously has issues already so early in her life.
bellnatalie 09 May 2012
Skip it!
I have never reviewed a movie before, but I disliked this one enoughthat I felt the need to express myself. I was really expecting a lotfrom this one because of my respect for Jake and Anne, but whether itis because they are both so good-looking and successful in real life,or because the production was that bad, I found the whole moviecompletely unbelievable and I was incredibly disappointed.There was not much in this movie I could relate to. I am in love, but Ididn't feel happy for them, especially not when Jake has to go sleepwith other women just to know how he feels for Anne, or when Anne keepstaking off her clothes and jumping him and then telling him to leaveher alone. Really, the nudity in this movie seemed there just todistract the audience from the fact that the dialogue was actuallyreally unoriginal. In an interview I read with Anne, she says shethinks nudity is important to the movie because both characters expressthemselves through their bodies while at the same time, shutting offtheir minds. I get her explanation, but I didn't get this from themovie.The really good parts centered around the discussion of Parkinsons andthe world of pharmaceutical drugs. However, I feel that the actorsinvolved wanted to produce a blockbuster with lots of boobs, not aserious movie that centers around these issues. The movie was reachingto get to a point that it could never achieve. I personally came awayfeeling that I wasted my time.
07 May 2012
Loved it!
This review is from: Love & Other Drugs (Amazon Instant Video) I loved the movie! So true what he says at the end; "You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you, and then you meet one person and your life is changed forever" :)
07 May 2012
Wonderful!!
This review is from: Love & Other Drugs (DVD) Everything went smooth and was as it stated it was suppose to be, I'm very satisfied and I would buy from them again!
04 May 2012
Surprisingly beautiful!
This review is from: Love & Other Drugs (Amazon Instant Video) I have to say I did not expect the film to be so raw, sexy, emotional, and meaningful... judging by the previews. But it totally captivated me... I loved every bit of it!
04 May 2012
Fantastic!
I loved this movie. It had me laughing, and crying, and it was sexy, and poignant, and very, very well acted. Jake and Anne are wonderful together. Very believeable. I could have done with a little less of the "brother" character, played by Josh Gad, and I wish Jake had more scenes with Hank Azaria and Oliver Platt, but I really did love it. When it ended, I just wanted to go right back to the beginning again!
02 May 2012
Great Buy!
This review is from: Love & Other Drugs [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray) This movie is a great buy! Jake Gyllenhaal is a great actor, I love all of his movies, and then put in Anne Hathaway and you have a great pair! :)
Jason Totten 01 May 2012
Pharmaceutical rep, don juan, Jamie Randal (Gyllenhaal) meets his match Maggie Merdock (Hathaway) and they connect with an ever growing passionate and emotional relationship.
Love & Other Drugs was not like most romantic comedies. It has afantastic storyline set around a med-school drop-out Jamie Randal(Gyllenhaal) and Maggie (Hathaway) a 26 year old with early on-setParkinson's. Jamie (Gyllenhaal) is introduced as an electronicssalesman who is very good at what he does both on the job and in thebedroom or wherever the mood strikes him. He loses his job for seducinghis bosses girlfriend in the storage room and his younger brother getshim a job as a pharmaceutical rep at the drug company Pfizer. He hastrouble at first getting doctors to prescribe his assigned drug Zoloft.Attempting to do whatever is necessary to make his quota, he shadows awell respected doctor Dr. Stan Knight (Hank Azaria)he meets Maggie(Hathaway). She seems to be just another girl but when she is as eageras he is to put things to bed things start getting emotional. One nightshe tells him about a new "sex drug" that Pfizer has made calledViagra. Having trouble selling Zoloft, he speaks to his boss at Pfizerand requests the opportunity to start representing Viagra. Being thedon juan he is, he makes his quota for a year in less than a month.Meanwhile Jaimie and Maggie are tackling their relationship with hiddenemotions that become uncovered as they grow closer and more in love.Jaime becomes obsessed with finding a cure for Maggie after he is toldby a man with a wife who has stage four. Maggie again sees rightthrough him and finds that he wants her to get better so he doesn'thave to spend the rest of his life with someone who is sick. Shebreaks-up with him and while moving out of his apartment, he watches avideo that they made of themselves where she tells him that no matterhow many more moments she has like that one nothing will compare. He isthen compelled to follow her bus to Canada in an effort to win her backin a very romantic way. He then tells her exactly how he feels. It is agreat movie with something to offer anyone being a cynic or ahopeless-romantic. The acting was phenomenal as was the directing andthe editing. The continuity, though, had some holes if you look forthem. All in all it was a movie that made me laugh, cry, and it touchedmy heart. 9/10
MovieManMenzel 01 May 2012
Hathaway & Gyllenhaal give it their best shot in the uneven "Love & Other Drugs"
In "Love & Other Drugs," Jake Gyllenhaal plays Jamie, a guy who reallyknows how to sell anything and everything including himself to variouswomen. Jamie is the top salesman at a local electronics store when oneday his boss finds out that he is sleeping with his girlfriend and thenfired. With no where else to go, Jamie asks his brother Josh (Josh Gad)to help him get a job. Josh helps Jamie land the ultimate sales job atPfizer Pharmaceuticals, where he has to use his smooth talking andcharm to become the number one sales rep in Ohio. All is going welluntil Jamie meets Maggie (Anne Hathaway), a woman unlike any woman hehas ever met before. Maggie is a strong and bold woman with a zero crappolicy and can see right through Jamie's little sales man act. Thisturns Jamie's life into a tail spin as he learns that love may in factbe his ultimate drug...First of all, let me tell everyone reading this review that "Love &Other Drugs" is a very hard R, which totally shocked me. I wasn'texpecting a sex scene about every 20 minutes but there was at least forthe first hour and 20 minutes of the film. With that being said, thatbecomes my first issue with the film. The movie had too much sex and Iknow that sounds odd coming from a guy. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyedseeing Anne Hathaway's beautiful and amazing naked body but after awhile it almost felt like a cheap exploit. I enjoy films that use sexscenes wisely because this film definitely needed sex to work but itwent over the top and almost felt like a filler at times.On that same topic, I am growing tired of the whole "Judd Apatow"effect in film, which are sex comedies with heart. Nowadays, a lot ofchick flicks have turned into a raunchy comedy for the first hour ofthe film and then turn into this heartfelt love story by the end.Before "Love & Other Drugs," I saw two other trailers using this same"effect" in their storyline and I have seen them many times before aswell. I think what is happening now is that Hollywood is trying tomanipulate males and females by selling them these raunchy chick flicksand putting a hot male and a hot female in the lead. This seems to be away to get guys to want to see a chick flick. The problem is that in myopinion very few movies are able to achieve this without manipulatingit's audience and drawing in on being unbelievable.I know it sounds like I am beating up "Love & Other Drugs" because I amcriticizing it but truth be told I did enjoy it. Its definitely farcall from being a perfect film but Hathaway and Gyllenhaal are trulygreat in the film and make this film worth watching. The odd thing,however, is that even with the film trying way too hard to balance twogenres it works for the most part but that's only because of it'sleads. Hathaway has always been in my book an underrated and beautifulactress. She's definitely not your normal Hollywood Scarlet but youknow what, that's what makes her so good at what she does. She seemslike a real every day kind of woman and this role fit her personalitywell, not to mention her chemistry with Gyllenhaal was dead on. I alsoreally liked Gyllenhaal in the film as well. He did a good job with thematerial at hand and played the smooth talking sales guy like a pro. AsI said, the two leads are really what helped the film succeed becausewithout them this movie would have been a huge mess."Love & Other Drugs" is loosely based on a book called "Hard Sell: TheEvolution of a Viagra Salesman" and it took three people to write thescreenplay for the film. The script is where the film's weakness trulylies. The mixing of sex comedy and romantic drama is a hard sell withthe film. Then you add in the typical movie clichés like the fatannoying funny guy (Jonah Hill, anyone), the good looking and smoothtalking lead who can get any woman he pleases, and then of course, thenotorious "sick girl," just to name a few of the many clichés used inthe film. On top of these flaws, the film's script seems almostunbalanced throwing in over the top nudity and sex scenes, which weredefinitely nice to look at but extremely uncalled for. There are alsoseveral plot holes and things that don't really add up in the film.In the end, "Love & Other Drugs" was one of the oddest films for me tosit through in recent years because I liked it and didn't like it atthe same time. What I didn't like was the over the top sex scenes alongwith the raunchiness of the film, the overabundance of film clichés,and how unbalanced the film was, which made it hard to figure outwhether it wanted to be a sex comedy or a romantic drama and thatannoyed me. I know from the majority of my review, it sounds like Ididn't like the film but I actually did at times. Its one of thosefilms I had a lot to say about it afterwords. I enjoyed the film'sconclusion, I enjoyed the chemistry and performances by Hathaway andGyllenhaal, and I even somewhat enjoyed the story even though it wasextremely clichéd. Overall, I would still recommend this film becauseit was definitely an adult geared romantic film with great performancesby the two leads.MovieManMenzel's final rating for "Love & Other Drugs" is a 6 out of10.
alerter 30 April 2012
smartest dramatic romantic-comedy in ages; nay sayers suffer from cold hearts, narrow minds
The story of Anne Hathaway's Maggie Murdock and Jake Gyllenhaal's JamieRandall has been told before in what was once known as tear-jerker,"disease-of-the-week" TV. The difference here is the organic layeringof a "romantic-comedy" atop three dramatic subtexts -- the overallhealth care crisis, pharmaceutical companies' influence over physicianscripts and the trials/tribulations of living with Parkinson's disease.The smartness of the framing drama is signature Ed Zwick and issuperior to the moronic contrivances that are typically used to stitchtogether most romantic-comedies today.It never hurts to have highly talented "eye candy" filling the screen,too.Jake has maintained his non-gym rat "cut" from Prince of Persia and Ihad no real idea about Anne's considerable physical assets, until thisgo around. Beyond physicality, they add palpable on-screen chemistry,with ample acting range that makes some people wonder about these twobeing a real-world, off-screen pairing. By no means is this just aChickFlick(TM). It's an Equal-Opportunity-to-Enjoy date movie.Jamie's a natural born salesman, a self-described "sh*thead", withsuitably situational ethics and mores. He knows that sex sells andnever shies away from it. He feigns ADD, but is really a whip-smart,premedical college dropout -- the oldest son, in a family spoiled bymedical and financial success. He's a prototypical 1990s ne'er-do-well.Gyllenhaal nails the part with a gee-shucks, then pour-it-on charm,telegraphing that Jamie knows he skates on his good looks over thethinnest ice. Once the ice gives way, Jamie is forced to suddenly fleefrom commissions-based consumer electronics into entry-level Big Pharmasales. Being a newly minted "health care professional," by Pfizer'ssales organization, Jamie is shipped to Pittsburgh, where he is toprove himself in market-share battle, under the tutelage of minor-cogsales manager Bruce Winston (Oliver Platt).Maggie's a talented and nonconformist visual artist, in multiple media,who's living with early onset (stage 1) Parkinson's disease. She seemsto make ends meet by waiting tables at a small-but-trendy coffee house,as well as by organizing senior citizen excursions to Canada to buyaffordable prescription medications. Young, beautiful and incurablyill, uninsured/cash-economy Maggie has a serial history of romantic (orwere they merely sexual?) liaisons with men who would be her savior.But Maggie doesn't want to be saved by anyone. She considers herself tobe a "sh*thead," of sorts, too.Maggie and Jake first cross paths during one of Jamie's doomed-to-failefforts to try to meet his Zoloft sales quotas. Prozac has a 100% lockon the scripts of local market trend-setting GP, Dr Stan Knight (HankAzaria). Jamie has managed to bribe his way into Dr Knight's privatepractice rounds in order to study the latter's daily workflow. Posingas an "intern," Jamie rides Dr Hank's coattails into a medicalconsultation with (and impromptu breast exam of) Maggie, who needs tohave her multiple scripts for Parkinson's, and all of the attendantside-effects, refilled.After Jamie's deception is exposed and the requisite, unethicalpersistence in obtaining Maggie's phone number, the two find ostensibly"honest" common sexual ground, where neither wants anything more fromthe other, other than an ongoing FWB arrangement, with hot-and-heavyemphasis on the B-part (pretty much the stuff that fuels a lot ofCraigslist "CAS" fantasy.) If that's all there was to L&OT, then it would be just anotherdumb-as-a-bag-of-screws romantic-comedy, no matter how beautifully andtastefully lensed.What attracted Zwick and co-writer Charles Randolph to tell this storywere larger (harder?) issues raised in Jamie Reidy's non-fiction book,Hard_Sell:_The_Evolution_of_a_Viagra_Salesman. Viagra is played to the hilt for jokes, but... We're living in the midst of an ongoing health care crisis, wherephysicians confront ongoing undue influence from Big Pharma, HMOs andinsurers in decisions that ought to be strictly medical. What was oncean "higher calling," has become just another job (albeit, highlycompensated, with accompanying high stress and highprofessional/financial risk).Physicians are routinely enticed to write scripts through offers offree gourmet meals, paid vacations (dressed up as educational junkets),outright cash payments (for "teaching" speaker-ships) and"miscellaneous" services. All of that really happens and, just maybe,contributes significantly to the high-price of name brand prescriptionmedications.We also see an highly compressed story (it's not supposed to be MedicalSchool) of living with Parkinson's (with many technical advisersthanked in the end credits, including Michael J Fox).Yes, Maggie's story is fictional, but it rings with authenticity.People who find themselves saddled with debilitating, life-threatening,chronic illness, who strive to live the best life that they can manageto, have a right to make their own choices as to how best to do exactlythat -- and to be accepted, respected and even loved for those choices,however they pan out, without pity. (That's not even easy to writedown.) Sometimes, True Love is asymmetrically, even messily, welded to RealNeeds. L&OD conveys that, from the writing all the way to the faces and eyesof Gyllenhaal and Hathaway in extreme close-up. It's straight up Drama,that doesn't diminish the romantic-comedy. The former only serves toaccentuate the latter and vice-versa.Platt and Azaria are to be thanked for their supporting turns that helpcarry the film without ever stealing it away. They're every bit asversatile as the leads. I don't need or want every film I see to be "Oscar worthy," but Ialways look for smart entertainment that doesn't insult me as a memberof the audience.L&OD is the only romantic-comedy that I've felt compelled to writesomething about to date. I was taken completely by surprise.(I will also miss Jill Clayburgh, 1944-2010, who lost her long-runningbattle with lymphoma. We may get to see her work one more time in2011's Bridesmaids.)
29 April 2012
Bipolar
By bipolar i mean that the movie couldn't decide whether it wanted to showcase how an individual and subsequently those around her deals with a progressively debilitating disease or showcase the surface physical attractiveness of it's two stars with a backdrop of spoofing Viagra and other "love" enhancing prosthetics. So, as a consequence the viewers' now split personality is left wandering in a zone of "huh?", "What is this movie about?" The story was neither deep enough, believable enough or focused enough to believe in it's outcome, whatever it may be, because the movie was so scattered it just ran out of time. So the viewer is left guessing about the important issue of how our protagonists would resolve care and love within the most trying days of a disease.
28 April 2012
A movie with a "meet cute" that comes across like a Penthouse Letter
That's the way I viewed the opening of the movie...something wildly implausible. I just found it impossible to believe that the Maggie character would give the Jamie character the time of day after he intruded on what could be fairly described as an extremely private moment with her doctor. And I really found myself wondering how many people in the age of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases would be meet for coffee and wind up going back to her place for what looked like unprotected sex after five minutes of conversation. If they had both been drinking or high, I could see that happening but stone cold sober seems like a stretch.And please don't interpret my title as an objection to the nudity and sex in the movie. I've got no objections to that. I just think that the sequence of events in the opening comes across more like some sort of adolescent male fantasy than something you might possibly encounter in real life.Another problem with the film is that Jamie comes across as such a smooth talking s**t who seems to live life for the sake of his own gratification, and I loath people like that.I think "Love and Other Drugs" could have been a great film if maybe they had made the way Jamie and Maggie became a couple more believable and perhaps had an actor a little less good looking and ingratiating than Jake Gyllenhaal
nazztrader 26 April 2012
Good idea - and execution, at least for a while.
If this were more realistic, it would be "indie" and get criticized forlacking coherence. If it were even more realistic it would be adocumentary, and lose most of its audience. I'm not suggesting this isa great film; I don't think it is. However, I did feel that there was alevel of honesty here one does not get in most "rom-coms" (not thatthis was intended to be one). Overall, the characters were more humanthan what one expects from a big budget Hollywood film these days. Theplot was clearly "forced," but how many films can't be criticized onthese grounds? I somewhat agree with the reviewer who said that itdoesn't "add up to anything satisfying," and that Hathaway's acting wasa distraction (Gyllenhaal was good).I would have liked this to be more about how the pharmaceuticalindustry manipulates people while selling drugs that may be dangerousor not particularly more effective than "tried and true" medications,and the first part of the film, which was focused on this, was welldone. Then it became something quite different, not as realistic nor asinvolving, and the pace slowed down as well. It almost felt like twofilms were merged together, with a nod to the "rom-com," perhaps toentice more young females. I think this could have been "saved" if theGyllenhaal character had been given a reason to "grow up." My endingwould be that he realizes he does not possess enough "character" todeal with her illness as it worsened, and he "let's her go." He pullsup aside the bus, sees that she does not notice him, and then takes hisfoot off the gas. We see his car slowly fade into the distance. Ofcourse, this would then be more of an "indie," and that's notpermissible in big budget Hollywood any more, right?
kosmasp 26 April 2012
Getting up
I'm actually going to refer to another movie called Sweet November too.There are a few similarities story-wise. I won't spoil too much, butjust in case you don't want to read about it, that was your warningHaving said that, this is a superior effort than Sweet November. WhileCharlize Theron and Anne Hatheway are more or less an even match, JakeG. has Keanu number all the way through. And while you could argue thatJakes role in this is better written, it is undeniable (for me) that heis also the superior actor.And while drugs include Viagra (or the beginning of it), apart fromsome innuendo and quite a few puns, this movie is also pretty sexual.For some viewers this might be too much. Not your typical romanticcomedy then (though you might have guessed that with the Sweet Novemberreference). It touches issues that are very real and while the tonedoes not always hit the right spot (there's another pun for you), itstill manages to get you